the Battle of Fort Donelson Author:James Hamilton the South VS the North- the bloodiest battle ever fought on American Soil... Victory at Fort Donelson: a guft from the Confederacy. Strangely, Fort Donelson has not been treated in depth in Civil War literature, Certainly in its day it was hailed as a decisive battle, but subsequently has been eclipsed by bloodier carnage, showier leaders, and... more » more romantic military units. Perhaps the most important result of the battle at Dover (Tennessee) was its raising of General Ulysses S. Grant to national prominence...« less