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Union Brigadier General Ulysses S. Grant, commanding the District of Southeast Missouri, embarks on his first battle of the Civil War when he leads a Union expeditionary force from Cairo, Illinois, downriver to Belmont, Missouri for a raid on a Confederate camp across the Mississippi from Columbus, Kentucky.
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Sources:
The Battle of Belmont: Grant Strikes South
by Nathaniel Cheairs Hughes, Jr.
Military History of Ulysses S. Grant from April 1861 to April 1865, Volume I
by Adam Badeau
Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant, Volume I
by Ulysses S. Grant
Script written J. Woody
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APA Style
Warhawk. (2026, October 06). Grant's First Battle: Battle of Belmont 1861. World History Encyclopedia. https://www.worldhistory.org/video/3459/grants-first-battle-battle-of-belmont-1861/
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Warhawk. "Grant's First Battle: Battle of Belmont 1861." World History Encyclopedia, October 06, 2026. https://www.worldhistory.org/video/3459/grants-first-battle-battle-of-belmont-1861/.
MLA Style
Warhawk. "Grant's First Battle: Battle of Belmont 1861." World History Encyclopedia, 06 Oct 2026, https://www.worldhistory.org/video/3459/grants-first-battle-battle-of-belmont-1861/.
