Created by Tom Horn on 8 Dec 2009, Last Update on 8 Dec 2009

Belmont - 7 Nov 1861

The first combat test in the American Civil War for Gen Ulysses Grant, the future Union Army general in chief and eventual president; Grant's troops in this battle were the 'nucleus' of the Union's notable Army of the Tennessee

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Tags : Missouri,Land,Combat

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