Battle of Belmont

Wann

7. Nov. 1861

Art

Schlacht

Koordinaten

36.77° N, 89.12° W

Description

battle of the American Civil War

1861 battle of the American Civil War

The Battle of Belmont was fought on November 7, 1861, in Mississippi County, Missouri. It was the first combat test in the American Civil War for Brig. Gen. Ulysses S. Grant, the future Union Army general in chief and eventual U.S. president, who was fighting Major General Leonidas Polk. Grant's troops in this battle were the "nucleus" of what would become the Union Army of the Tennessee.

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