They at once gave Generals Halleck, Grant, and C.F.Smith, great fame.

Of course, the rebels let go their whole line, and fell back on Nashville and Island No.

Ten, and to the Memphis & Charleston Railroad.

Everybody was anxious to help.
Boats passed up and down constantly, and very soon arrived the rebel prisoners from Donelson.

I saw General Buckner on the boat, he seemed self-sufficient, and thought their loss was not really so serious to their cause as we did.
About this time another force of twenty or twenty-five thousand men was collected on the west bank of the Mississippi, above Cairo, under the command of Major-General John Pope, designed to become the "Army of the Mississippi," and to operate, in conjunction with the navy, down the river against the enemy's left flank, which had held the strong post of Columbus, Kentucky, but which, on the fall of Fort Donelson, had fallen back to New Madrid and Island No.