The Dover Hotel, the headquarters of General Simon B. Buckner (CSA), and location of the Confederate surrender.
Brigadier General Ulysses S. Grant was becoming quite famous as he wrote these words following the surrender of Confederate Fort Donelson on Sunday, February 16, 1862. The Union victory at Fort Donelson elated the North, and stunned the South. Within days of the surrender, Clarksville and Nashville would fall into Union hands. Grant and his troops had created a pathway to victory for the Union.
On June 6, the National Park Service (NPS) provided notice to AACON General Contractors, LLC that AACON's right to proceed further under the Fort Donelson National Battlefield Visitor Center rehabilitation contract was being terminated for default.