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	Battle of Belmont - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Battle of Belmont was fought on November 7, 1861, in Mississippi County, Missouri.
		The Federals routed the Confederates out of their Belmont cantonment and destroyed the Rebel supplies and equipment they found because they did not have the means to carry them off.
		Categories: Battles of the Operations at the Ohio and Mississippi River Confluence of the American Civil War
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Battle_of_Belmont (259 words)

	Chapter XX. Grant, Ulysses S. 1885–86. Personal Memoirs
		I knew there was a small camp of Confederates at Belmont, immediately opposite Columbus, and I speedily resolved to push down the river, land on the Missouri side, capture Belmont, break up the camp and return.
		The two objects for which the battle of Belmont was fought were fully accomplished.
		Belmont was severely criticised in the North as a wholly unnecessary battle, barren of results, or the possibility of them from the beginning.
	www.bartleby.com /1011/20.html (2690 words)

	Battle of Belmont (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The whole affair was in fact a worthless waste of men and supplies; Belmont was of no strategic importance.
		The battle did, however, showcase the talents of the previously unknown Union general, Ulysses S. Grant.
		Fascinating Fact: The Battle of Belmont was Gen. Ulysses S. Grant's first Civil War battle.
	civilwar.bluegrass.net /battles-campaigns/1861/611107b.html (303 words)

	7th inf ia & reb (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Nevertheless, from a long account of the battle in the Chicago Journal, one would gather the information that all the troops engaged were front that part of Illinois, known as "Egypt," with the exception of the battery.
		Whatever may be the final judgment upon the battle of Belmont, considered as a whole, it is certain the Seventh Iowa there maintained the reputation which our State troops had borne at Wilson's Creek and at Blue Mills Landing.
		In the battle of Corinth, fought on the 3d and 4th days of October, our regiment, as will be hereafter more particularly related, was engaged in the thickest of the combat, and gallantly maintained the reputation it had fairly won at Belmont, at Donelson, and at Shiloh.
	lserver.aea14.k12.ia.us /iacivilwar/Resources/7thinf.htm (6664 words)

	Handbook of Texas Online: BELMONT, TX
		Belmont, between Gonzales and Seguin on U.S. Highway 90A in western Gonzales County, was established in the 1840s as a stage stop called Centerville.
		On June 14, 1901, a shoot-out, which the newspapers labeled the "Battle of Belmont," occurred when lawmen attacked the home of Martín and Refugia Robledo, who were giving refuge to fugitive Gregorio Cortez.
		In the 1940s Belmont had a church, a gin, a general store, a garage, and a population of around 100.
	www.tsha.utexas.edu /handbook/online/articles/view/BB/hnb24.html (366 words)

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		The Civil War battle at Belmont, Missouri is one of the least studied of the state's Civil War engagements.
		The battle receives most of its attention from the fact that it was the first military engagement directed by Brigadier General Ulysses S. Grant.
		There was little long-range effect of the battle for southeast Missouri, and due to the isolated location, there has been little commemoration of the battle.
	www2.semo.edu /regionalhist/FAQ_battlefield.html (405 words)

	Columbus, Kentucky
		The chain was firmly anchored on the Columbus shore by a buried six-ton sea anchor and attached to a capstan on the Belmont shore.
		After a sharp battle, the Confederates were forced to retreat, and Grant turned his guns on the main stronghold at Columbus.
		However, he was overpowered, and, after burning the Belmont camp, he withdrew upriver to Cairo, Illinois, and prepared for an offensive against Forts Henry and Donelson on the Tennessee and Cumberland rivers.
	www.nps.gov /vick/camptrail/sites/Kentucky-sites/ColumbusKY.htm (823 words)

	Encyclopedia: Battle of Belmont
		by Julius Bien and Co., Lith., N.Y. The Battle of Belmont was a battle of the American Civil War, occurring on November 7, 1861 in Mississippi County, Missouri.
		The American Civil War was fought in the United States from 1861 until 1865 between the United States – forces coming mostly from the 23 northern states of the Union – and the newly-formed Confederate States of America, which consisted of 11 southern states that had declared their secession.
		Categories: Battles of the Operations at the Ohio and Mississippi River Confluence of the American Civil War
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Battle-of-Belmont (444 words)

	mcdonald
		The battle was fought at the mouth of a lane and a man lived on that lane by the name of Britton, hence the Battle of Britton's Lane.
		We marched a mile or two after the battle, and in doing so, we marched over the battle ground after dark, and the groans of the wounded, and calling for water was heartrendering.
		The name of this battle was taken from a mans name that lived on the hill in the midst of the battle.
	home.comcast.net /~30il/mcdonald.html (21567 words)

	Belmont Bruins - Belmont University Athletics - Nashville, TN (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Belmont answered with an Andrew Preston driving lay-up and a pair of Brian Collins free throws drew the Bruins within a bucket at the intermission, trailing 28-24.
		Belmont opened the second half on a 10-3 run, capped by Collins lay-up off a Will Peeples pass from the post to put the Bruins up 36-31.
		Belmont came right back to score the next six points including a clutch three from Nick Otis with 1:00 left.
	www.belmont.edu /athletics/bruinnews/mbasketball/mbbbel16_012105.htm (533 words)

	Ulysses Grant-Civil War: Cairo, Belmont, Ft Henry, Donelson
		Note that the "Battle of Paducah" was also a one-day affair, but much later in the war.
		By day's end, the battle is over, resulting in the loss of 1,000 lives.
		Grant, in chapter 20 of his memoirs, defends the Battle of Belmont.
	www.southernmostillinoishistory.net /grant.htm (848 words)

	Mid-Missouri Civil War Round Table: Belmont (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		As the sounds of the battle of Belmont began to increase, Commander Walke was of the inclination that Grant was now heavily engaged, he once again took the gunboats back down river about 10:00 am.
		Once these two new regiments arrived the line of battle was reformed similar to the old, keeping the 7th Iowa and the 22nd Illinois on the left.
		Colonel Tappen, commanding the Confederate Forces at Belmont was thus notified, and Brigadier General Gideon Pillow was instructed to move across the river to support with four of his regiments.
	www.mmcwrt.org /2002/default0211.htm (4331 words)

	Belmont Fire Fighters Battle Fatal Fire on Trowbridge St.
		Belmont Fire Alarm office began receiving calls reporting a house fire at around 3:39am on Thursday morning November 24.
		The victim was brought out to the front of the house where Acting Lieutenant Bob Fowler and Firefighter Walter Wellman performed CPR unit EMS from Armstrong Ambulance could take over care.
		Belmont Fire Investigation Unit along with the State Fire Marshals office was called in to investigate the cause of the fire.
	www.iaff1637.org /print_article.cfm?homeID=11498 (369 words)

	Civil War Battle and Campaign Maps
		Battle of the Antietam fought on the 16th and 17th September 1862, prepared by command of Major Gen. McClellan, October, 1862 / Battle of the Antietam sketched under the direction of Capt. J.C. Duane plus 4 smaller maps.
		Battle of McDowell, Va. on Thursday, May 8th, 1862 / Pocahontas and Highland Co. W.Va., April 15th-22, 1865 / Route Map of Gettysburg Campaign and used during that campaign by General R.E. Lee, January to April, 1863 / Route to McDowell.
		Battle of Averasborough, N.C. fought March 16th, 1865 / Savannah, Ga. / Battle of Bentonville, N.C. fought March 19th, 1865 / Bird's Point, Mo. from surveys in the Summer of 1861.
	www.philaprintshop.com /cwbatmap.html (3907 words)

	Belmont Bruins - Belmont University Athletics - Nashville, TN (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Belmont closed the game on a 9-2 run to force a decisive fifth game.
		A final push by the Bruins was fended off by JU as the Dolphins captured the 2004 A-Sun Championship, and Belmont fell to 0-4 in five-game matches this season.
		Belmont’s 16-match improvement in the win column is the biggest turnaround in school history while the team’s.724 winning percentage set a new school record.
	www.belmont.edu /athletics/bruinnews/volleyball/vbasun112004.htm (518 words)

	Grant, Ulysses S. 1885–86. Personal Memoirs (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The Mexican War—The Battle of Palo Alto—The Battle of Resaca de la Palma—Army of Invasion—General Taylor—Movement on Camargo
		Battle of Chattanooga—A Gallant Charge—Complete Rout of the Enemy—Pursuit of the Confederates—General Bragg—Remarks on Chattanooga
		Battle of Sailor’s Creek—Engagement at Farmville—Correspondence with General Lee—Sheridan Intercepts the Enemy
	aol.bartleby.com /1011 (1137 words)

	Belmont Club
		Even in the battles of the First and Second Fallujah there were always extraordinary efforts to preserve mosques and similar places, probably to the glee and wonderment of the enemy.
		A recent Belmont Club post noted that 'victories' won by the Left with these tactics were more properly understood as acts of desperation by those who feared their long term decline, as if in slipping from the pinnacle, they despaired of ever regaining it again.
		Franco Molina once wrote a line for a Para general in the Battle of Algiers: 'Why is it that the Sartres are all born on the other side?" The Left could afford to speak down to its critics.
	belmontclub.blogspot.com (7052 words)

	Iowa History Project (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		It was near the beginning of the war and very few of the Union soldiers engaged had ever seen a battle, so that this conflict with superior numbers gave them great confidence in themselves, and proved again that there was no better material in either army than the volunteers from Iowa and Illinois.
		It fought bravely at the Battle of Shiloh, serving in the Iowa Brigade commanded by Colonel J. Tuttle, and lost thirty-four men during the engagements.
		He was captured at Belmont while attending our wounded soldiers, and died from the effects of his arduous duties after the battle at Fort Donelson.
	iagenweb.org /history/hoi/HOI2Chp12.htm (3587 words)

	The Civil War at a Glance (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Their first encounter, the Battle of the Wilderness, opens on May 5 and for the next 40 days the armies remain locke din deadly embrace.
		A union army is defeated at Belmont, Mo., early in November--the first test of battle for a rising young brigadier general named Ulysses S. Grant.
		In several battles around Chattanooga between October and November, Grant's armies defeat Bragg's troops, forcing them to retreat to Dalton, Georgia, where Bragg is succeeded in command be Gen, Joseph E. Johnson.
	www.pueblo.gsa.gov /cic_text/misc/civilwar/civilwar.htm (3527 words)

	The Civil War, Slavery, and Reconstruction in Missouri
		Battle of Wilson's Creek is covered in chapter 8, pp.301-331 and chapter 9, pp.331-363.
		Battle of Pilot Knob, Iron County, Missouri, 27 September 1864.
		The Battle of the Blue of the Second Regiment K.S.M., October 22,1864: The Fight, the Captivity, the Escape as Remembered by Survivors and Commemorated by the Gage Monument at Topeka, Kansas.
	library.puc.edu /heritage/bib-civilwarmissouri.html (11578 words)

	Grant
		It was said that he even went so far at times as to take the guard from their posts and go with them to the village near by and make a night of it.
		I found it very hard work for a few days to bring all the men into anything like subordination; but the great majority favored discipline, and by the application of a little regular army punishment all were reduced to as good discipline as one could ask.
		Belmont was severely criticized in the North as a wholly unnecessary battle, barren of results, or the possibility of them from the beginning.
	www.civilwarstlouis.com /History/Grant.htm (12388 words)

	Amazon.com: Last Stand in the Carolinas: The Battle of Bentonville: Books (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Bradley also does an excellent job of describing the little known battles of Averasboro (General Hardee did a commendable job of delaying Sherman's advance) and Monroe's Crossroads (Kilpatrick was almost captured and his force ambushed).
		The Battle of Bentonville is rescued from obscurity.
		Bradley has written an outstanding account of the soldiers who fought this landmark battle in the waning days of the war, and he has given us a thorough look at what was going on in the minds of the Generals who led their soldiers to the killing fields of Bentonvile.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/1882810023?v=glance (2067 words)

	MilitaryHistoryOnline.com - Battle of Malvern Hill
		Should the force already enroute to Indian Ford drive the rebels, he was to make battle provided his own force was not dangerously outnumbered.
		Marching down the road in column, the 27th Illinois lead the way followed by the 30th Illinois, one section of Taylor's Battery followed next, the 31st Illnois Infantry, the remainder of Taylor's Battery, with the 7th Iowa and 22nd Illinois Infantry bringing up the rear of the brigade.
		He did state that Pillow's line of assault never even made it to the federal battle line, that it was stopped short some 50 to 75 yards of the line.
	www.militaryhistoryonline.com /civilwar/misc/belmont.aspx (4112 words)

	Civil War Nurse Major Belle Reynolds
		In the Western Theater, due to her exploits at the battle of Shiloh, April 6-7, 1862, Belle Reynolds was commissioned as a major by the governor of Illinois.
		The regiment was involved in the battle of Belmont, Missouri, on November 7, 1861, led by a new brigadier general named Ulysses S. Grant.
		Soon one of the party, impressed by her story, suggested that Belle deserved a commission more than some of the officers, and another suggested that it be done.
	home.lorettotel.net /~dubluet2/reynolds.htm (1891 words)

	Columbus-Belmont State Park, a Kentucky State Park
		The site was considered a strategic location for control of the Mississippi River, and the struggle to control the river led to the Battle of Belmont on November 7, 1861.
		Confederate General Leonidas Polk established camps on both the Kentucky and Missouri sides of the river and named the more heavily fortified Columbus the "Gibraltar of the West." But a Union General destined for the White House, Ulysses S. Grant, outflanked the "Gibraltar" and forced evacuation of the Confederates in 1862.
		Columbus Belmont State Park III - Forrest C. Pogue Public History Institute.
	www.stateparks.com /columbusbelmont.html (262 words)

	Castlevania 2: Simon's Quest
		Simmon Belmont put an eternal period to the legend of Dracula.
		But on account of the injury suffered during the battle, Simmon Belmont passed away.
		His name is Simmon Belmont, that is the name of yourself.
	www.classicgaming.com /castlevania/Games/cv2foreign.html (405 words)

	The Belmont Club: The Battle for the Border
		The unfamiliar whoosh of helicopter rotors and the sight of the Army brigade's Stryker vehicles engaged in battles along largely rural roadways have prompted hundreds and possibly thousands of the estimated 20,000 people in Rawah to flee in fear of an attack similar to the one in Fallouja, officials said.
		Which would no doubt be disappointing to those still hoping for a decisive battle and an end to all insurgent activity.
		This sort of puts the past month's casualty rate in Iraq in perspective, if you believe we need to be engaged there and that the threat of islamic terrorism/fundamentalism is every bit the equal of the threat Japan posed back then.
	fallbackbelmont.blogspot.com /2005/08/battle-for-border.html (10514 words)

	American Memory from the Library of Congress - Browse by
		Beaver Dam Creek, Battle of, Va., 1862 (3)
		Brandy Station, Battle of, Brandy Station, Va., 1863--Maps.
		Bull Run, 1st Battle of, Va., 1861--Maps, Manuscript.
	lcweb2.loc.gov /ammem/collections/civil_war_maps/subjectB.html (120 words)

	Battle of Laconia, November, 1862 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Grant and Johnston fight a major battle at Belmont, Tennessee which results in a Union victory, the Confederates fall back on Grenada, uncovering the approaches to Memphis.
		Pursuing the rebels, the Union win a battle at Hernando in early October, securing the route to Helena.
		The Union plan was to fight this battle in to stages.
	members.aol.com /garbee/acwnaval/november1862.html (991 words)

	[No title]
		From the battle of Belmont, Missouri, in November, 1861, to the battle at Coe’s Farm, North Carolina, April 1865, General Stewart took part in all the campaigns of the Army of Tennessee.
		He was put in command of the heavy artillery and water batteries and was under this command when the battle of Belmont was fought (November 7).
		General Stewart, who lived in Chattanooga for a time, was appointed one of the commissioners to take charge of this work and held that position until his death in 1908.
	www.angelfire.com /tn/hawkinscocivilwar/stewart.html (669 words)

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