Record Data Place Unit Type City or Town Containing Unit Mississippi County, MO Events Date Type 11/06/1861 Brigadier General Grant sails from Cairo, Illinois to attack Confederate positions along the Mississippi Battles/Soldiers 09/04/1861 Confederate troops invade western Kentucky and bring the state's efforts to remain neutral to an end Battles/Soldiers 11/07/1861 In Mississippi County, Missouri, Brigadier General Grant and his men overrun a Confederate camp at Belmont Battles/Soldiers 09/06/1861 Union forces under Ulysses S. Grant occupy Paducah, Kentucky on the Ohio River Battles/Soldiers People Documents Date Title 11/07/1861 Major-General Leonidas Polk, CSA, Report on the Battle at Belmont, November 7, 1861 11/08/1861 Brigadier-General U.S. Grant, To the troops of the November 7, 1861 engagement at Belmont, Missouri, November 8, 1861 11/09/1861 Flag Officer A.H. Foote, USN to Navy Secretary Gideon Welles, Report on the Battle of Belmont, November 9, 1861 11/12/1861 Brigadier-General U.S. Grant, Report of the November 7, 1861 engagement at Belmont, Missouri, November 12, 1861 12/13/1861 Claiborne Fox Jackson to the Soldiers and Fellow-Citizens of Missouri, December 13, 1861 Images
