Sounds more like Fort Sumter - the engagement that sparked-off the war.
Never heard of any rations-crisis at Fort Henry.
Lincoln said he would send food but no arms to the fort.
Fort Sumter was a fort back when Lincoln was president.
Grant's first brief was to capture Fort Henry and Fort Donelson. He was ordered there by Henry Halleck.
President Lincoln sent in troops from the North to help the southern troops stuck at the fort.
he made a army to fight fort sumert
US President Lincoln hoped to avoid an armed conflict over Fort Sumter. For that reason he informed Jefferson Davis that only supples, not ammunition or weapons were being sent to Fort Sumter.
The Civil War
Buchanan wasn't President so he didn't respond. Lincoln was president.
After the surrender of Fort Sumter, President Lincoln called for 75,000 volunteers. He requested that each of them serve for three months.
Lincoln sent a ship to Fort Sumter in 1861 because the troops needed food and supplies.
The conspirators involved in President Lincoln's assassination were hanged at Fort McNair in Washington DC. The date was July 7, 1865.
They attacked the Union Fort and left the union.