Stroming Fort Donelson
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Union troops storm Fort Donelson in Tennessee. The inevitability of the Fort's fall to Union forces inspired the evacuation of Bowling Green by Confederate troops. Courtesy of the Library of Congress.
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A Civil War Defense Line
Historical Marker #538 in Warren County commemorates the Union capture of Bowling Green on February 14, 1862.
On September 18, 1861, Confederate General Simon Bolivar Buckner and nearly five thousand troops marched on Bowling Green. Capturing…