Fort Henry falls, opening the Tennessee River
February 6, 1862, Fort Henry, Tennessee.
- Date
- February 6, 1862
- Where
- Fort Henry, Tennessee
- What happened
- Captured
- Event
- 22 of 174
Union gunboats forced the surrender of Fort Henry, opening the Tennessee River to Union traffic as far as northern Alabama. From February 6 to 12, three timberclads raided upriver to Muscle Shoals, destroying supplies and an important bridge of the Memphis and Ohio Railroad and capturing Confederate vessels, among them the unfinished ironclad Eastport.
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