The Battle of Belmont was fought on November 7, 1861 in Mississippi County, Missouri. It was the first combat test in the American Civil War for Brig. Gen. Ulysses S. Grant, the future Union Army general in chief and eventual U.S. president, who was fighting Major General Leonidas Polk. Grant’s troops in this battle were the “nucleus” of what would become the Union Army of the Tennessee. (Read more at Wikipedia.)
Title: Map of the battlefield near Belmont, Missouri
Contributor Names: United States. Army. Corps of Engineers.
Created / Published [Washington]: Office of the Chief of Engineers U.S. Army, 1876.
Subject Headings
…..Belmont, Battle of, Belmont, Mo., 1861.–Maps
…..Columbus (Ky.)–History–Civil War, 1861-1865–Maps
…..United States–Kentucky–Columbus
…..United States–Missouri–Belmont
…..Belmont, Battle of, Belmont, Mo
Notes
…..Description derived from published bibliography.
…..Oriented with north to left.
…..Shows Confederate camp and batteries near Columbus, Kentucky, “Camp and battery of secessionists” near Belmont, Missouri, Union troop positions and movements during battle, location and names of Union gunboats, roads, vegetation, fences and relief shown by hachures.
…..This item is in the Map Collection of the Library of Virginia; please contact the Library’s Archives Research Services department for more information.
…..LC Civil war maps (2nd ed.) 297
…..Available also through the Library of Congress web site as raster image.
…..Jan, 1913, Libbie, b; June 2004, Map Cataloging Team.
…..Civil War project no.: lva00212.
…..Conservation: Etherington Conservation Center, May 2004.
….. Digital image available: 20 x 23 in.
…..Map accession no. 895 (Jan. 1913).
Medium: 1 map : col., mounted on paper ; 41 x 51 cm. on sheet 50 x 58 cm.
Repository: Library of Virginia Richmond, VA 23219-8000 USA vau For copies contact: Archives Research Services.
Digital Id: http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.ndlpcoop/glva01.lva00212