ocr: 6fig2.html - Notepad EX File Edit Search Help KHTML> <TITLE>The Battle of selmonts/IIILEX <BODY> On 07 November, 1861, Brig- Gen. Ulysses Grant, operating without orders, decided that the time had come to do what the army had signed up to do; fight the enemy. At dawn he loaded 3,114 men onto transports and set out from Paducah, Ky to Belmont, Mo; arriving about an hour later. The Union troops, despite experiencing their first combat, Fought well for more than four nours, chasing the Confederates out of their camp. Grant himself had his horse shot out from under him. Once the 5oldiers reached t ...
