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The Battle of Belmont: Grant Strikes South (Civil War America), Very Good Condit
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Item specifics
- Condition
- Like New
- Seller notes
- “Hardback in DJ, very good”
- Book Title
- The Battle of Belmont: Grant Strikes South (Civil
- Country/Region of Manufacture
- United States
- ISBN
- 9780807819685
- Publication Year
- 1991
- Series
- Civil War America
- Type
- Textbook
- Format
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- Publication Name
- The Battle of Belmont: Grant Strikes South
- Item Height
- 235 mm
- Publisher
- T.H.E. University of North Carolina Press
- Subject
- History
- Item Width
- 156 mm
- Number of Pages
- 310 Pages
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The battle of Belmont was the first battle in the western theater of the Civil War and, more importantly, the first battle of the war fought by Ulysses S. Grant. It set a pattern for warfare not only in the Mississippi Valley but at Fort Donelson and Shiloh as well. Grant's 7 November 1861 strike against the Southern forces at Belmont, in southeastern Missouri on the Mississippi River, made use of the newly outfitted Yankee timberclads and all the infantry available at the staging area in Cairo, Illinois. The Confederates, led by Leonidas Polk and Gideon Pillow, had the advantages of position and superior numbers. They hoped to smash Grant's expeditionary force on the Missouri shore and cut off the escape of the Illinois and Iowa troops from their boats. The confrontation was a bloody, all-day fight that a veteran of a dozen major battles would later call frightful to contemplate. At first successful, the Federals were eventually driven from the field and withdrew up the Mississippi to safety. The battle cost some twenty percent of his troops, but as a result of this engagement Grant became known as an audacious fighting general. Using diaries and letters of participants, official documents, and contemporary newspaper accounts, Nathaniel Hughes provides the only full-length tactical study of the battle that catapulted Grant into prominence. Throughout the narrative, Hughes draws sketches of the lives and fates of individual soldiers who fought on both sides, especially of the colorful and enormously dissimilar principal actors, Grant and Polk. The battle of Belmont was the first battle in the western theater of the Civil War and, more importantly, the first battle of the war fought by Ulysses S. Grant. At first successful, the Federals were eventually driven from the field and withdrew up the Mississippi to safety. The battle cost some twenty percent of Grant's troops, but as a result of this engagement he became known as an audacious fighting general. Nathaniel Hughes provides the only full-length tactical study of the battle that catapulted Grant into prominence. Throughout the narrative, Hughes draws sketches of the lives and fates of individual soldiers who fought on both sides, especially of the colorful and enormously dissimilar principal actors, Grant and Polk.
Product Identifiers
Publisher
T.H.E. University of North Carolina Press
ISBN-13
9780807819685
eBay Product ID (ePID)
90077905
Product Key Features
Number of Pages
310 Pages
Language
English
Publication Name
The Battle of Belmont: Grant Strikes South
Publication Year
1991
Subject
History
Type
Textbook
Series
Civil War America
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
Item Height
235 mm
Item Width
156 mm
Additional Product Features
Country/Region of Manufacture
United States
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