Alt Text Map of Fort Donelson National Battlefield in Kentucky. The park area, shown in green, sits at a point between a creek and a lake, with other park areas in the nearby town of Dover. Waters are blue, Civil War Preservation Trust land is shaded mint green, and other land is beige. Extended Description Hickman Creek and Lake Barkley (historic Cumberland River) come together at the top of the map to create a wide peak. The Fort Donelson National Battlefield’s shape below these waters resembles a diamond, with a tail tapering off to the right. Another park site is in Dover, farther east. Indian Creek seeps into the right wing of the main battlefield from Lake Barkley. Dyers Creek is diagonal from Dover, angled toward the right side. Lick Creek is in the bottom right corner. This description will start by laying out the roads on the map, then will travel through the park area via the tour route, noting sites and trails along the way. It will then note the locations of Confederate earthworks and the general areas of Civil War Preservation Trust lands before the transcription of the legend. Roads US Highway 79, also labeled Donelson Parkway, swings in from the left side, arching over the battlefield’s bottom corner, dipping in the middle of the map and swooping up through Dover. It continues over Lake Barkley and Dyers Creek and off the top edge of the map. From its emergence on the left side, text reads “To sites of Fort Henry and Fort Heiman, Land Between the Lakes National Recreation Area, and Paris.” Text near its exit reads “To Clarksville and Nashville.” Near the middle of the bottom edge, Wynn Ferry Road comes in at an angle, meeting up with Natcor Drive going northeast. Going southwest, Wynn Ferry Road meets with Sandy Road, which swoops over and down to meet Indian Creek Road and then heads northeast through the middle of the map. Near the bottom right edge of the battlefield, Sandy Road meets Church Street, which winds its way east to Dover. Parallel to Church Street, Spring Street in Dover is also called State Route 49, and veers off the right edge of the map. Text reads “To site of Nathan Bedford Forrest’s crossing of Lick Creek and Erin.” About halfway across State Route 49, Natcor Drive swoops down, crossing Main Street below Dover and then meeting Cedar Street, which connects to Donelson Parkway. Above the parkway, Cedar Street connects back to Church Street. Park A blue line represents a tour route with numbered stops around the park areas. From US Highway 79, the route goes up into the park to the Visitor Center and stop 1, Confederate Monument. The Donelson Trail also starts here, parallel with US Highway 79 going east, then splitting before Indian Creek. One leg goes up the east side of Indian Creek to stop 11, and the other leg goes west of the creek to Fort Donelson. The trail continues around this peak area, and the River Circle Trail Loop branches off from it below Hickman Creek. The Donelson Trail heads down and around other stops and the Confederate Monument, completing its loop. Northeast of the Confederate Monument is stop 2, Fort Donelson. Above it is stop 3, Log Huts. Closer to the river is stop 4, River Batteries. Southwest and beyond the trails, stop 5 is Smith’s Attack, followed by stop 6, Union Camp. The path loops back to stop 1. Continuing along US Highway 79 is a path that leads to stop 7, Graves’ Battery, near the battlefield’s bottom corner. A trail leads from here and heads east, crossing Sandy Road and Erin Hollow on its way to stop 8, French’s Battery, on Cedar Street near Natcor Drive. Stop 9, Forge Road, is on Natcor Drive, near Main Street. The tour continues up Natcor Drive to State Route 49, then goes northwest toward Dover and stop 10, Dover Hotel (Surrender House), on a corner by the lake and Petty Street. West on State Route 49/Spring Street, the tour rejoins Donelson Parkway, swoops down and meets Sandy Road, then Church Street, then Cemetery Road to stop 11, Fort Donelson National Cemetery. A local cemetery is next to it. Confederate Earthworks Red lines indicate Confederate earthworks, and gray lines indicate Confederate earthworks that no longer exist. There are red lines at Porter’s Battery, near the Visitor Center, Confederate Monument, and along that stretch of the tour route from stops 5 and 6. A red line encircles Fort Donelson, while other red lines are closer to the river at the Lower River Battery and Upper River Battery. A red line appears near Lake Barkley, above the cemetery, and a long red line goes around Graves’ Battery. An even longer red line, Maney’s Battery, reaches from Sandy Road to Erin Hollow, then from Erin Hollow to stops 8 and 9. A gray line continues on the other side of Main Street to run roughly parallel with Natcor Drive. Civil War Preservation Trust Some patches of the Civil War Presentation Trust areas are located east of the park’s eastern boundary, around Erin Hollow down to Wynn Ferry Road, below Natcor Drive and Forge Road, over to Lick Creek. Legend A scale in the lower left corner of the map measures distances of 0.1 and 0.3 kilometers and 0.1 and 0.3 miles. The legend here and where it continues in the lower right corner reads as follows: Green for National Park lands, Paler mint green for Civil War Preservation Trust lands, Red lines for Confederate earthworks, Gray lines for Confederate earthworks that no longer exist, Blue circle with a white number for Tour stop, Blue line for Tour route, and Black dashed line for Interpretive trail.