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On a frigid day in February 1862, Brig. Gen. Ulysses S. Grant accepted the surrender of Fort Donelson on the Cumberland River in Tennessee. That victory, combined with Grant’s success in reducing Fort Henry on the Tennessee River a week earlier, brought the general’s name into the national headlines and more importantly opened the state …
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