Battle of Belmont, Missouri

Battle of Belmont, Missouri - Union forces under Ulysses Grant engage Confederate forces under Major General Leonidas Polk at Belmont in Mississippi County, Missouri on November 7, 1861. Because Grant attacked and withdrew, the Confederates considered this a victory for the South.

Sub-Operations

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Union Troops

Grant's Expeditionary Command

Grant's Expeditionary Command, District of Southeast Missouri

• Ulysses S. Grant (Brigadier General)

Brigade	Regiments and Other
McClernand's Brigade John McClernand (Brigadier General)	27th Illinois Infantry Napoleon Bonaparte Buford (Colonel) 30th Illinois Infantry Francis B. Fouke (Colonel) 31st Illinois Infantry John A. Logan (Colonel)
Dougherty's Brigade Henry Dougherty (Colonel)	7th Iowa Infantry Jacob Gartner Lauman (Colonel) 22nd Illinois Infantry Harrison E. Hart (Lieutenant Colonel)
Cavalry	Dollin's (Independent) Cavalry Company James J. Dollins (Captain) 2nd Illinois Cavalry' James K. Catlin (Lieutenant)
Artillery	1st Illinois Light Artillery / Battery B Ezra Taylor (Captain)
Gunboats	U.S.S. Lexington Commander Roger N. Stembel U.S.S. Tyler Commander Henry A. Walke
Steamers	Aleck Scott (Captain Robert A. Reilly) Chancellor (?) Keystone State (?) Belle Memphis (Captain ? Turner, Pilot Charles M. Scott) James Montgomery (?) Rob Roy (?)

Other Units Subject to Grant's Command

Brigade	Regiments and Other
from Bird's Point toward Bloomfield	11th Illinois (1 battalion): Col William H. L. Wallace
Oglesby's Brigade    Col Richard James Oglesby	10th Iowa: Col Nicholas Perczel 8th Illinois: Ltc Frank L. Rhoads 11th Illinois (1 battalion): Ltc Thomas E. G. Ransom 18th Illinois: Col Michael Kelly Lawler 29th Illinois: Col James Reardon
Cavalry	Langen's (Missouri) MCompany: Lt Ferdinand Hansen Pfaff's (Missouri) Company: Cpt Ernest Pfaff Noleman's Centralia (Illinois) Company: Lt Samuel P. Tufts
Artillery	Campbell's Battery (1 section) Schwartz's Battery (1 section): Lt George C. Gumbart
Plummer's Brigade    Col Joseph B. Plummer [from Cape Girardeau to Bloomfield]	11th Missouri: Col Joseph B. Plummer 17th Illinois: Col Leonard Fulton Ross
from Cape Girardeau to Charleston	20th Illinois: Col C. Carroll Marsh
Cook's Brigade    Col John Cook [from Fort Holt, Kentucky to Columbus]	7th Illinois: Col John Cook 28th Illinois

Cooperating unit not subject to Grant's command, from Ironton to St. Francis River

• 38th Illinois: Col William P. Carlin

Units Garrisoned at Paducah, Kentucky

BG Charles Ferguson Smith

Brigade	Regiments and Others
1st Brigade    BG Eleazer A. Paine	9th Illinois 12th Illinois 40th Illinois 41st Illinois Thielemann's (Illinois) Dragoons: Cpt Christian Thielemann Buell's (Missouri) Battery
2nd Brigade	23rd Indiana: Col William L. Sanderson

Confederate Order of Battle

First Division, Western Department

MG Leonidas Polk

Brigade	Regiments and Other
Camp of Observation, Belmont    Col James Camp Tappan	13th Arkansas: Col James C. Tappan 1st Mississippi Cavalry Battalion: Ltc John H. Miller Watson Battery: Ltc Daniel Beltzhoover
Reinforcements brought by BG Pillow    BG Gideon Johnson Pillow	12th Tennessee: Col Robert M. Russell, Ltc Tyree H. Bell 13th Tennessee: Col John Vines Wright, Ltc Alfred Jefferson Vaughan, Jr. 21st Tennessee: Col Edward Pickett, Jr. 22nd Tennessee: Col Thomas J. Freeman
Units dispatched to BG Pillow	11th Louisiana: Col Samuel F. Marks, Ltc Robert H. Barrow 1st Mississippi Battalion: Ltc Andrew K. Blythe 2nd Tennessee: Col J. Knox Walker, Ltc William B. Ross 15th Tennessee: Col Charles M. Carroll, Ltc Robert C. Tyler 154th Senior Tennessee: Col Preston Smith, Ltc Marcus Joseph Wright
Cavalry	Logwood's Tennessee Battalion: Ltc Thomas H. Logwood
Steamers	Charm: Captain William L. Trask Harry W. R. Hill: Captain Tom H. Newel Ingomar: Captain Joe D. Clark Kentucky: Captain Billy Priest Prince: Captain B. J. Butler
Artillery    [fired from Kentucky shore]	Bankhead's Tennessee Battery: Cpt Smith P. Bankhead Hamilton's Tennessee Battery: Cpt S. D. H. Hamilton Jackson's Light Battery: Lt William W. Carnes Pointe Coupee Battery: Cpt Richard A. Stewart Smith's Mississippi Light Battery: Cpt Melancthon Smith Stewart's Heavy Battery: Maj Alexander P. Stewart

Units in reserve or near Columbus

Units	Regiments and Others
Infantry	6th Arkansas: Col Richard Lyon 10th Arkansas: Col Thomas D. Merrick 12th Arkansas: Col E. W. Gantt 7th Kentucky: Col Charles Wickliffe 12th Louisiana: Col Thomas M. Scott 21st Louisiana Battalion (5th Louisiana Battalion): Ltc J. B. Kennedy 9th Mississippi: Col John M. Bradley 22nd Mississippi: Col D. W. C. Bonham 25th Mississippi: Ltc Edward F. McGehee 1st Missouri: Col Lucius L. Rich 4th Tennessee: Col Rufus P. Neely 5th Tennessee: Col William E. Travis 6th Tennessee: Col William H. Stephens 9th Tennessee: Col Henry L. Douglass 33rd Tennessee: Col Alexander W. Campbell
Artillery	Hudson's Mississippi Battery: Cpt Clement L. Hudson Polk's Light Battery: Cpt Marshall T. Polk Williams' Tennessee Battery: Lt Thomas F. Tobin
Cavalry	6th Tennessee Battalion: Ltc Thomas H. Logwood 1st Mississippi Battalion: Ltc John H. Miller

Casualties

• Union loss: 80 killed, 322 wounded, 99 missing = Total 501 (Dyer)
  • Union loss: 120 killed, 383 wounded, and 104 captured or missing = Total 607 (Wikipedia)
• Confederate loss: 105 killed, 419 wounded, 106 captured, and 11 missing = Total 641 (Wikipedia)

Sources

• Dyer, Frederick H. A Compendium of the War of the Rebellion. The Dyer Publishing Company (Des Moine, 1908). (Pages 599, 623, 790, 798)
• Hughes, Nathaniel Cheairs. The Battle of Belmont: Grant Strikes South (Chapel Hill, NC: The University of North Carolina Press), 1991.
• Wikipedia - Battle of Belmont