---
kind: "section"
citation: "16 U.S.C. § 428p"
title: "16"
title_heading: "Conservation"
number: "428p"
heading: "Fort Donelson National Battlefield"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/16/428p"
units:
  - "Chapter 1 — National Parks, Military Parks, Monuments, and Seashores"
  - "Subchapter LX — National Military Parks"
---

# §428p. Fort Donelson National Battlefield

- (a) **Designation; purpose—** There exists as a [unit](/usc/16/430f–7.md?p=4) of the National [Park](/usc/16/410r–5.md?p=c-3) System the Fort Donelson National Battlefield to commemorate—
  - (1) the Battle of Fort Donelson in February 1862; and
  - (2) the campaign conducted by General Ulysses S. Grant and Admiral Andrew H. Foote that resulted in the capture of Fort Donelson by Union forces.
- (b) **Boundaries—** The boundary of the Fort Donelson National Battlefield is revised to include the site of Fort Donelson and associated land that has been acquired by the [Secretary](/usc/16/410r–5.md?p=c-1) of the Interior for administration by the National [Park](/usc/16/410r–5.md?p=c-3) Service, including Fort Donelson National Cemetery, in Stewart County, Tennessee and the site of Fort Heiman and associated land in Calloway County, Kentucky, as generally depicted on the [map](/usc/16/430f–7.md?p=1) entitled “Fort Donelson National Battlefield Boundary Adjustment” numbered 328/80024, and dated September 2003. The [map](/usc/16/430f–7.md?p=1) shall be on file and available for public inspection in the appropriate offices of the National [Park](/usc/16/410r–5.md?p=c-3) Service.
- (c) **Expansion of boundaries—** The Fort Donelson National Battlefield shall also include any land acquired pursuant to [section 428p–1 of this title](/usc/16/428p–1.md).

## Source credit

(Pub. L. 108–367, § 2, Oct. 25, 2004, 118 Stat. 1743.)