New Orleans / Belmont / Columbus / Urbana / Cairo / Victor Hicken / Chicago / /
Country
Mexico / /
Facility
Confederate fort / Camp Johnston.1 This camp / University of Illinois Press / /
NaturalFeature
Mississippi River / /
Organization
National Park Service / 7th Iowa regiment / Confederate / Union army / Twenty-Seventh Infantry / Command Historians Office / Grant’s army / University of Illinois Press / Confederate infantry / army / Thirtieth Infantry / /
Person
Ulysses S. Grant / Leonidas Polk / John A. Logan / Jeff Thompson / Jonathon Kirkham-Intern / /
Position
Major General / Captain / General and future president / Hunter / Adjutant General / commander / Major / Senator / commander / /
The Battle of Belmont By Jonathon Kirkham-Intern On November 7, 1861, Union and Confederate forces engaged in combat on the banks of the Missouri side of the Mississippi River near the small hamlet of Belmont. In the lar