<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Civil_War" id="mwfg" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="American Civil War">American Civil War</a>: Confederates commanded by Brig. Gen. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_B._Floyd" id="mwfw" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="John B. Floyd">John B. Floyd</a> attack General <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ulysses_S._Grant" id="mwgA" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Ulysses S. Grant">Ulysses S. Grant</a>'s Union forces <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Fort_Donelson" id="mwgQ" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Battle of Fort Donelson">besieging Fort Donelson</a> in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tennessee" id="mwgg" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Tennessee">Tennessee</a>. Unable to break the fort's encirclement, the Confederates surrender the following day.<sup about="#mwt65" class="mw-ref reference" data-mw='{"name":"ref","attrs":{},"body":{"id":"mw-reference-text-cite_note-11"}}' id="cite_ref-11" rel="dc:references" typeof="mw:Extension/ref"><a href="./February_15#cite_note-11" id="mwgw" style="counter-reset: mw-Ref 11;"><span class="mw-reflink-text" id="mwhA">[11]</span></a></sup>
<span class="mw-reference-text" id="mw-reference-text-cite_note-11">Nevin, David, and the Editors of Time-Life Books. <i id="mwBvE">The Road to Shiloh: Early Battles in the West</i>. Alexandria, VA: Time-Life Books, 1983. <a about="#mwt62" class="mw-redirect" href="./ISBN_(identifier)" id="mwBvM" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a><span about="#mwt62" id="mwBvQ" typeof="mw:Entity"> </span><a about="#mwt62" href="./Special:BookSources/0-8094-4716-9" id="mwBvU" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Special:BookSources/0-8094-4716-9">0-8094-4716-9</a> pp. 84–86</span>