The Battle of Belmont
Subtitle: Grant strikes South
By: Nathaniel Cheairs Hughes, Jr.
Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
Published: 1991
Place of publication: Chapel Hill
Language: eng
Number of pages: 310
Subjects: Belmont, Battle of, Belmont, Mo., 1861.
Description: Covers the Mississippi County, Missouri, battle, the first Civil War battlefield test of Ulysses S. Grant. It occurred just across the river from Cairo, Illinois, from which the union troops came. The Confederates crossed from Columbus, Kentucky. This book is a comprehensive study of the battle.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 277-295) and index.