The Battle of Belmont: Grant Strikes South

Author/Contributor(s):	Hughes, Nathaniel Cheairs
Publisher:	University of North Carolina Press
Date:	02/25/2008
Binding:	Paperback
Condition:	NEW

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. 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.