Do you know much about the fort ?" "I've heard of it only since I came to Cairo.

I know that it stands on low, marshy ground facing the Tennessee, and that it contains seventeen big guns.

I haven't heard anything about the size of its garrison." "But we'll have a fight, that's sure," said young Pennington.

"I've been in battle only once--at Columbus--but the Johnny Rebs don't give up forts in a hurry." "There's another fort, a much bigger one, named Donelson, on the Cumberland," said Dick.

"Both the forts are in Tennessee, but as the two rivers run parallel here in the western parts of the two states, Fort Donelson and Fort Henry are not far apart.