![]() McClellan’s commendation acknowledged that the operations’ success resulted from cooperation between Grant’s land and Foote’s naval forces. With those fortifications now in Union hands, the heart of the western Confederacy was laid open to further operations by U.S. Confederate generals had counted on the two forts to stop Federal forces from moving south along the two rivers, both natural avenues of advance-the Tennessee reaching into the piney woods of northeast Mississippi, the Cumberland bending southeast toward Tennessee’s Confederate state capital of Nashville. ![]() 1 Ten days earlier, the two officers and their commands had captured Fort Henry on the Tennessee River, just 10 miles to the west. Navy for the recent capture of Fort Donelson on the Cumberland River in Tennessee. McClellan sent his appreciation to Brigadier General Ulysses S. In February 1862, Major General George B. ![]() Learning the Art of Joint Operations: Ulysses S. ![]()
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