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Battle of Belmont order of battle: Union

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Map of the Battlefield near Belmont showing the camps and Battery

The following Union Army units and commanders fought in the Battle of Belmont of the American Civil War. The Confederate order of battle is listed separately.

Abbreviations used

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Military Rank

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Union Forces

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Grant's Expeditionary Command, District of Southeast Missouri

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BG Ulysses S. Grant

Brigade Regiments and Other
McClernand's Brigade

   BG John A. McClernand

Dougherty's Brigade

   Col Henry Dougherty

Cavalry
Artillery
Gunboats
Steamers
  • Aleck Scott: Captain Robert A. Reilly
  • Chancellor
  • Keystone State
  • Belle Memphis: Captain ___ Turner, Pilot Charles M. Scott
  • James Montgomery
  • Rob Roy

Units subject to Grant's command

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Brigade Regiments and Other
from Bird's Point toward Bloomfield
Oglesby's Brigade

   Col Richard James Oglesby

Cavalry
Artillery
Plummer's Brigade

   Col Joseph B. Plummer
[from Cape Girardeau to Bloomfield]

from Cape Girardeau to Charleston
Cook's Brigade

   Col John Cook
[from Fort Holt, Kentucky to Columbus]

From Paducah, Kentucky

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BG Charles Ferguson Smith

Brigade Regiments and Others
1st Brigade


   BG Eleazer A. Paine

2nd Brigade

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

See also

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References

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  • Hughes, Nathaniel Cheairs. The Battle of Belmont: Grant Strikes South (Chapel Hill, NC: The University of North Carolina Press), 1991. ISBN 0-8078-1968-9
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