PAPER WARS: Issue 87 - Belmont: Grant's Baptism of Command, November 7th, 1861

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Magazine and Game. Ulysses Grant - who is he? Prior to the battle of Belmont at Belmont on November 7, 1861, this was a valid question. General Grant's Belmont offensive was his first action in the war, providing him and his green mid-western troops much-needed experience. Having overrun a rebel camp, he claimed victory. But later, Confederate general Polk would claim victory for forcing Grant and his troops to quit the battlefield and chasing them aboard their transports.