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Bivouac of the Dead Tablets at Fort Donelson National Cemetary, Fort Donelson National Battlefield, in April 2005
Bivouac consists of three 3'x 1-1/2' cast-iron tablets set on wood posts. Each tablet has one verse of the poem "Bivouac of the Dead" cast with "Rook Island Arsenal 1881" on verso. Tablets are located in a semicircle on the north side of monument mound. || The poem, "The Bivouac of the Dead," was written by Theodore O'Hara in 1847 to commemorate the burial of Kentucky soldiers who fell at Battle of Buena Vista: "On Fame's eternal camping ground / Their silent tents are spread, / And Glory guards with solemn round / The bivouac of the dead."
Southeast Overall View
U.S. National Park Service
Bivouac of the Dead tabliets contribute to national significance of Fort Donelson under NR Criterion A because of its assoc. with early commemorative efforts at Fort Donelson and Criterion C as part of a designed landscape laid out by the War Dept.
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Fort Donelson National Battlefield, Code: FODO
Fort Donelson National Battlefield
Latitude: 36.4885, Longitude: 87.84741
Latitude: 36.4885, Longitude: 87.84741
07/11/2005
01/01/1881 - 12/30/1881
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