ocr: bdes Netscape - [The Battle of Belmont] EX File Edit View Go Bookmarks Options Directory Window Help 4o - Location: file:///C/My Documents/HTML Special Edition/6fig2. .html On 07 November, 1861, Brig. Gen. Ulysses Grant, pperating without orders, decided that the time had come to do what the army had signed up to do; fight the enemy. At dawn he loaded3,114 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 hours, chasing the Confederates out of their camp. Grant ...
