The Battle Of Belmont
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Author | : Nathaniel Cheairs Hughes Jr. |
Publisher | : Univ of North Carolina Press |
Total Pages | : 329 |
Release | : 2000-11-09 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0807866814 |
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The battle of Belmont was the first battle in the western theater of the Civil War and, more importantly, the first battle of the war fought by Ulysses S. Grant. It set a pattern for warfare not only in the Mississippi Valley but at Fort Donelson and Shiloh as well. Grant's 7 November 1861 strike against the Southern forces at Belmont, in southeastern Missouri on the Mississippi River, made use of the newly outfitted Yankee timberclads and all the infantry available at the staging area in Cairo, Illinois. The Confederates, led by Leonidas Polk and Gideon Pillow, had the advantages of position and superior numbers. They hoped to smash Grant's expeditionary force on the Missouri shore and cut off the escape of the Illinois and Iowa troops from their boats. The confrontation was a bloody, all-day fight that a veteran of a dozen major battles would later call "frightful to contemplate." At first successful, the Federals were eventually driven from the field and withdrew up the Mississippi to safety. The battle cost some twenty percent of his troops, but as a result of this engagement Grant became known as an audacious fighting general. Using diaries and letters of participants, official documents, and contemporary newspaper accounts, Nathaniel Hughes provides the only full-length tactical study of the battle that catapulted Grant into prominence. Throughout the narrative, Hughes draws sketches of the lives and fates of individual soldiers who fought on both sides, especially of the colorful and enormously dissimilar principal actors, Grant and Polk.
Author | : Charles Rauh |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 154 |
Release | : 2017-04-10 |
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ISBN | : 9781545300961 |
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This book is about Confederate innovation as they fought the Civil War. Stretching a chain across the Mississippi River from Columbus, Kentucky to stop river boats is a masterful concept. While the story of the chain is fascinating, you will also read of the first battle of General U.S.Grant when he attacks the Confederates encamped at Belmont, Missouri. This Confederate camp was known as Camp Johnson. In addition, you will read of the Lady Polk. She was the largest cannon the Union army had.
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Total Pages | : 16 |
Release | : 2015 |
Genre | : Belmont, Battle of, Belmont, Mo., 1861 |
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Author | : John Seaton (Capt. 22nd Ill. infantry.) |
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Total Pages | : 16 |
Release | : 1902 |
Genre | : Belmont, Battle of, Belmont, Mo., 1861 |
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Total Pages | : 27 |
Release | : 1974 |
Genre | : Belmont, Battle of, Belmont, Mo., 1861 |
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Total Pages | : 27 |
Release | : 1974 |
Genre | : Belmont (Mo.) |
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Author | : Stuart W. Sanders |
Publisher | : Arcadia Publishing |
Total Pages | : 171 |
Release | : 2015-06-22 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1614239657 |
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On January 19, 1862, Confederate and Union forces clashed in the now-forgotten Battle of Mill Springs. Armies of inexperienced soldiers chaotically fought in the wooded terrain of south-central Kentucky as rain turned bloodied ground to mud. Mill Springs was the first major Union victory since the Federal disaster of Bull Run. This Union triumph secured the Bluegrass State in Union hands, opening the large expanses of Tennessee for Federal invasion. From General Felix Zollicoffer meeting his death by wandering into Union lines to the heroics of General George Thomas, Civil War historian Stuart Sanders chronicles this important battle and its essential role in the war.
Author | : William B. Feis |
Publisher | : U of Nebraska Press |
Total Pages | : 354 |
Release | : 2002-01-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780803220058 |
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A history professor sheds light on Grant's often successful intelligence efforts during the Civil War, showing how he was able to overcome Lee's mobility with effective eyes and ears trained on his movements.
Author | : John Seaton (Capt. 22nd Ill. infantry.) |
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Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 1902 |
Genre | : Belmont, Battle of, Belmont, Mo., 1861 |
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Author | : Missouri Civil War Reenactors' Association |
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Total Pages | : 74 |
Release | : 1991 |
Genre | : Belmont, Battle of, Belmont, Mo., 1861 |
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