Unconditional Failure: How Confederate Commanders Lost Fort Donelson: A Study in Military Command and the Myth of Confederate Superiority

1. Chapter 1: The Players - Five Men Who Would Shape Disaster

2. Chapter 2: The Strategic Blunder - How to Lose a War in Ten Days

3. Chapter 3: February 15 - How to Snatch Defeat from Victory

4. Chapter 4: The Night of Abandonment - February 15-16

5. Chapter 5: "Unconditional Surrender" - February 16

6. Chapter 6: The Reckoning - What Fort Donelson Revealed

7. Epilogue: The Long Shadow of Command Failure