American Civil War: Battle of Belmont - "Grant's First Battle"

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Union Brigadier General Ulysses S. Grant, commanding the District of Southeast Missouri, embarks on his first battle of the Civil War when he leads a Union expeditionary force from Cairo, Illinois, downriver to Belmont, Missouri for a raid on a Confederate camp across the Mississippi from Columbus, Kentucky.

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Sources:

The Battle of Belmont: Grant Strikes South
by Nathaniel Cheairs Hughes, Jr.

Military History of Ulysses S. Grant from April 1861 to April 1865, Volume I
by Adam Badeau

Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant, Volume I
by Ulysses S. Grant

Script written J. Woody

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