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Belmont, MO

Mississippi County, Missouri, 1857

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Place Unit Type:

City or Town

Containing Unit:

Mississippi County, MO

Events

Life span		Type
11/06/1861	Brigadier General Grant sails from Cairo, Illinois to attack Confederate positions along the Mississippi	Battles/Soldiers
09/04/1861	Confederate troops invade western Kentucky and bring the state's efforts to remain neutral to an end	Battles/Soldiers
11/07/1861	In Mississippi County, Missouri, Brigadier General Grant and his men overrun a Confederate camp at Belmont	Battles/Soldiers
09/06/1861	Union forces under Ulysses S. Grant occupy Paducah, Kentucky on the Ohio River	Battles/Soldiers

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Date	Title
11/07/1861	Major-General Leonidas Polk, CSA, Report on the Battle at Belmont, November 7, 1861
11/08/1861	Brigadier-General U.S. Grant, To the troops of the November 7, 1861 engagement at Belmont, Missouri, November 8, 1861
11/09/1861	Flag Officer A.H. Foote, USN to Navy Secretary Gideon Welles, Report on the Battle of Belmont, November 9, 1861
11/12/1861	Brigadier-General U.S. Grant, Report of the November 7, 1861 engagement at Belmont, Missouri, November 12, 1861
12/13/1861	Claiborne Fox Jackson to the Soldiers and Fellow-Citizens of Missouri, December 13, 1861

Bibliography

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