Battle of Belmont, Missouri

Battle of Belmont, Missouri - Union forces under Ulysses Grant engage Confederate forces under Major General Leonidas Polk at Belmont in Mississippi County, Missouri on November 7, 1861. Because Grant attacked and withdrew, the Confederates considered this a victory for the South.
== Sub-Operations ==
== Union Troops ==
 
 
 Grant's Expeditionary Command
Grant's Expeditionary Command, District of Southeast Missouri
* Ulysses S. Grant (Brigadier General)
 
Brigade 	Regiments and Other
McClernand's Brigade
John McClernand (Brigadier General)	
* 27th Illinois InfantryListed on Dyer's original Orders of BattleNapoleon Bonaparte Buford (Colonel)
* 30th Illinois InfantryListed on Dyer's original Orders of BattleFrancis B. Fouke (Colonel)
* 31st Illinois InfantryListed on Dyer's original Orders of BattleJohn A. Logan (Colonel)
Dougherty's Brigade
Henry Dougherty (Colonel)	
* 7th Iowa InfantryListed on Dyer's original Orders of BattleJacob Gartner Lauman (Colonel)
* 22nd Illinois InfantryListed on Dyer's original Orders of BattleHarrison E. Hart (Lieutenant Colonel)
Cavalry	
* Dollin's (Independent) Cavalry CompanyListed on Dyer's original Orders of BattleJames J. Dollins (Captain)
* 2nd Illinois Cavalry'Listed on Dyer's original Orders of Battle as Delano's Adams Co. CavalryJames K. Catlin (Lieutenant)''
Artillery	
* 1st Illinois Light Artillery / Battery BEzra Taylor (Captain)
Gunboats	
* U.S.S. Lexington Commander Roger N. Stembel
* U.S.S. Tyler Commander Henry A. Walke
Steamers	
* Aleck Scott (Captain Robert A. Reilly)
* Chancellor (?)
* Keystone State (?)
* Belle Memphis (Captain ? Turner, Pilot Charles M. Scott)
* James Montgomery (?)
* Rob Roy (?)
 
 
 Other Units Subject to Grant's Command
Brigade 	Regiments and Other
from Bird's Point toward Bloomfield	
* 11th Illinois (1 battalion): Col William H. L. Wallace
Oglesby's Brigade
  
Col Richard James Oglesby	
* 10th Iowa: Col Nicholas Perczel
* 8th Illinois: Ltc Frank L. Rhoads
* 11th Illinois (1 battalion): Ltc Thomas E. G. Ransom
* 18th Illinois: Col Michael Kelly Lawler
* 29th Illinois: Col James Reardon
Cavalry 	
* Langen's (Missouri) MCompany: Lt Ferdinand Hansen
* Pfaff's (Missouri) Company: Cpt Ernest Pfaff
* Noleman's Centralia (Illinois) Company: Lt Samuel P. Tufts
Artillery 	
* Campbell's Battery (1 section)
* Schwartz's Battery (1 section): Lt George C. Gumbart
Plummer's Brigade
  
Col Joseph B. Plummer
[from Cape Girardeau to Bloomfield]	
* 11th Missouri: Col Joseph B. Plummer
* 17th Illinois: Col Leonard Fulton Ross
from Cape Girardeau to Charleston 	
* 20th Illinois: Col C. Carroll Marsh
Cook's Brigade
  
Col John Cook
[from Fort Holt, Kentucky to Columbus]	
* 7th Illinois: Col John Cook
* 28th Illinois
Cooperating unit not subject to Grant's command, from Ironton to St. Francis River
* 38th Illinois: Col William P. Carlin
 
 
 Units Garrisoned at Paducah, Kentucky
BG Charles Ferguson Smith
Brigade 	Regiments and Others
1st Brigade
  
BG Eleazer A. Paine	
* 9th Illinois
* 12th Illinois
* 40th Illinois
* 41st Illinois
* Thielemann's (Illinois) Dragoons: Cpt Christian Thielemann
* Buell's (Missouri) Battery
2nd Brigade	
* 23rd Indiana: Col William L. Sanderson
 
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== Confederate Order of Battle ==
===First Division, Western Department===
MG Leonidas Polk
 
Brigade 	Regiments and Other
Camp of Observation, Belmont
  
Col James Camp Tappan	
* 13th Arkansas: Col James C. Tappan
* 1st Mississippi Cavalry Battalion: Ltc John H. Miller
* Watson Battery: Ltc Daniel Beltzhoover
Reinforcements brought by BG Pillow
  
BG Gideon Johnson Pillow	
* 12th Tennessee: Col Robert M. Russell, Ltc Tyree H. Bell
* 13th Tennessee: Col John Vines Wright, Ltc Alfred Jefferson Vaughan, Jr.
* 21st Tennessee: Col Edward Pickett, Jr.
* 22nd Tennessee: Col Thomas J. Freeman
Units dispatched to BG Pillow 	
* 11th Louisiana: Col Samuel F. Marks, Ltc Robert H. Barrow
* 1st Mississippi Battalion: Ltc Andrew K. Blythe
* 2nd Tennessee: Col J. Knox Walker, Ltc William B. Ross
* 15th Tennessee: Col Charles M. Carroll, Ltc Robert C. Tyler
* 154th Senior Tennessee: Col Preston Smith, Ltc Marcus Joseph Wright
Cavalry 	
* Logwood's Tennessee Battalion: Ltc Thomas H. Logwood
Steamers 	
* Charm: Captain William L. Trask
* Harry W. R. Hill: Captain Tom H. Newel
* Ingomar: Captain Joe D. Clark
* Kentucky: Captain Billy Priest
* Prince: Captain B. J. Butler
Artillery    [fired from Kentucky shore]	
* Bankhead's Tennessee Battery: Cpt Smith P. Bankhead
* Hamilton's Tennessee Battery: Cpt S. D. H. Hamilton
* Jackson's Light Battery: Lt William W. Carnes
* Pointe Coupee Battery: Cpt Richard A. Stewart
* Smith's Mississippi Light Battery: Cpt Melancthon Smith
* Stewart's Heavy Battery: Maj Alexander P. Stewart
===Units in reserve or near Columbus===
Units 	Regiments and Others
Infantry 	
* 6th Arkansas: Col Richard Lyon
* 10th Arkansas: Col Thomas D. Merrick
* 12th Arkansas: Col E. W. Gantt
* 7th Kentucky: Col Charles Wickliffe
* 12th Louisiana: Col Thomas M. Scott
* 21st Louisiana Battalion (5th Louisiana Battalion): Ltc J. B. Kennedy
* 9th Mississippi: Col John M. Bradley
* 22nd Mississippi: Col D. W. C. Bonham
* 25th Mississippi: Ltc Edward F. McGehee
* 1st Missouri: Col Lucius L. Rich
* 4th Tennessee: Col Rufus P. Neely
* 5th Tennessee: Col William E. Travis
* 6th Tennessee: Col William H. Stephens
* 9th Tennessee: Col Henry L. Douglass
* 33rd Tennessee: Col Alexander W. Campbell
Artillery	
* Hudson's Mississippi Battery: Cpt Clement L. Hudson
* Polk's Light Battery: Cpt Marshall T. Polk
* Williams' Tennessee Battery: Lt Thomas F. Tobin
Cavalry 	
* 6th Tennessee Battalion: Ltc Thomas H. Logwood
* 1st Mississippi Battalion: Ltc John H. Miller
== Casualties ==
* Union loss: 80 killed, 322 wounded, 99 missing = Total 501 (Dyer)
** Union loss: 120 killed, 383 wounded, and 104 captured or missing = Total 607 (Wikipedia)
* Confederate loss: 105 killed, 419 wounded, 106 captured, and 11 missing = Total 641 (Wikipedia) 
== Sources ==
* (Pages 599, 623, 790, 798)
* Hughes, Nathaniel Cheairs. The Battle of Belmont: Grant Strikes South (Chapel Hill, NC: The University of North Carolina Press), 1991.
* Wikipedia - Battle of Belmont
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