From Fort Henry to Corinth

"This campaign drove the rebellion once and for all out of Kentucky; it broke the rebel line from Columbus to Bowling Green hopelessly in pieces; it opened the Mississippi from Cairo to Memphis; it contained the first great Union victories; and at Donelson and Island No.10, it received the first surrenders of rebel armies; it cheered and encouraged the the North, going far to compensate the delays and defeats in Virginia, and was correspondingly depressing in its effect upon the South. It ended