Battlefield Maps of Fort Henry

United States Army Corps of Engineers. "[Plan of Fort Henry and its outworks." Col. Map on Sheet 38 X 51 Cm. Shows Fort Henry, Tenn. (Confederate) as at 6 Feb. 1862. Library of Congress Geography and Map Division Washington http://www.loc.gov/item/77696125 (Accessed 10/18/2013)

Battlefield Maps of Fort Henry

These maps show the position of Fort Heiman opposite Fort Henry. This is particularly scene in the General Grant map below where you see fort Henry in the red in the center, Richards positions is to the lower left across the river from the artillery positions. Richard could observe the ironclad navy bombard Fort Henry. When he slipped across the Tennessee River his troops would move past the triangle shaped lake to Fort Donelson from the Southwest. Grants men landed towards the top of this map on the West side of the Tennessee River and headed towards Fort Donelson from the northwest.

"Capture of forts [sic] Henry ... Tennessee By U.S. Grant, January 1862." 1 Map : Pen and Ink and Watercolor ; 14.5 X 12 Cm. Virginia Historical Society, P.O. Box 7311, Richmond, VA 23221-0311 USA vau. http://www.loc.gov/resource/gvhs01.vhs00281/ (Accessed 10/18/2013).

United States War Department. “Atlas of the war of the Rebellion giving Union and Confederate armies by actual surveys by the Union and Confederate engineers, and approved by the officers in command, of all the maps herein published.” Plate XI. 1 Atlas ([3] Leaves, 40 Folded Plates, [14] Leaves) : Ill., Folded Col. Maps, Plans New York : Atlas Pub. Co., 1892. Library of Congress Geography and Map Division http://www.loc.gov/item/2009581111 (accessed August 31, 2013).

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