{"id":68375,"date":"2026-11-07T21:32:00","date_gmt":"2026-11-08T03:32:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/?p=68375"},"modified":"2026-07-26T13:41:29","modified_gmt":"2026-07-26T18:41:29","slug":"belmont","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/belmont\/","title":{"rendered":"Belmont"},"content":{"rendered":"<a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/exit78\/27823758846\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0px 0px 0px 10px;\" title=\"Battle of Belmont, Mo., Opposite Columbus, Ky, November 7th, 1861\u2013Federal Forces Commanded by U. S. Grant; Confederate Forces, by Leonidas Polk\" src=\"https:\/\/c2.staticflickr.com\/8\/7403\/27823758846_d5c3780800_b.jpg\" alt=\"Battle of Belmont, Mo., Opposite Columbus, Ky, November 7th, 1861\u2013Federal Forces Commanded by U. S. Grant; Confederate Forces, by Leonidas Polk\" \/><\/a>\n<p><strong>Battle of Belmont, Mo., Opposite Columbus, Ky, November 7th, 1861\u2013Federal Forces Commanded by U. S. Grant; Confederate Forces, by Leonidas Polk<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>(from Frank Leslie&#8217;s Illustrated History of the Civil War&#8230;, edited by Louis Shepheard Moat, Published by Mrs. Frank Leslie, New York, 1895)<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Explanation.-1. Brigadier General Grant and staff directing the movements of the troops. 2. Brigadier General McClernand leading the charge at the head of the Thirty-first Illinois. 3. Thirty-first Illinois, Colonel Logan. 4. Body of Lieutenant Colonel Wendtz, Seventh Ohio. 5. Body of Captain Pulaski, aid-de-camp to McClernand, killed while leading the charge. 6. Caisson ordered to the field from the rear. 7. Twenty-seventh Illinois, Colonel Buford, taking the camp colors of the Confederates. 8. Thirtieth Illinois, Colonel Fouke. 8 A. Twenty-second Illinois, Colonel Dougherty. 9. Light artillery, Captain Taylor. 10. Seventh Ohio, Colonel Lamon. 11. Captain Schwartz, acting chief of artillery, taking the Confederate battery. 12. Watson&#8217;s Louisiana field battery. 13. Confederate artillery horses. 14. Battery of heavy ordnance at Columbus. 15. Encampment near Columbus. 16. Confederate ferryboat. 17. Columbus.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Battle of Belmont, Mo., Opposite Columbus, Ky, November 7th, 1861\u2013Federal Forces Commanded by U. S. Grant; Confederate Forces, by Leonidas Polk (from Frank Leslie&#8217;s Illustrated History of the Civil War&#8230;, edited by Louis Shepheard Moat, Published by Mrs. Frank Leslie, New York, 1895) &#8220;Explanation.-1. Brigadier General Grant and staff directing the movements of the troops. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-68375","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-frank-leslies-illustrated-newspaper"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68375","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/21"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=68375"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68375\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":122625,"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68375\/revisions\/122625"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68375"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68375"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68375"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}