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upon this occasion, the first,in this war, in which he hadhad an opportunity to cometo blows with his enemy,he no doubt mentally in-vested his soldiers with thesame capacity for resist-ance that he felt withinhimself, overlooking thefact that they were freshlevies and that it was theirfirst engagement. Be thisas it may, he soon foundthat he was unable to holdhis position and thereforeattempted to dislodge theconcealed foe by a seriesof gallant charges. Theseproved of no avail, and,after losing heavily, he hadto give way. In the meantime he must have in-flicted heavy loss upon theenemy, for it required thepressure of but two addi-tional regiments, which ar-rived about 12 o’clock, and numbered together but 1000 men, to drive Grantfrom the field. The force which won the battle of Belmont was, then, about4000 men. It is true that an additional reenforcement of 2 regiments ofabout 500 men each was sent across the river, but they arrived after theFederal force had been defeated, and took part oidy in the pursuit.
In short, it maybe said that the battle was fought by 3114 Federals against4000 Confederates, the result being a victory for the latter; and that, subse-quently, the Confederates were reenforced by 1000 men with whom they tookup the pursuit, thus bringing the total upon the field to 5000 of all arms.]) In
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| A recent revision of the official tables of lossesshows that the estimates as given in the officialrecords are under the mark. The official recordsand the officially revised estimates furnish thefollowing data:
The Union forces engaged at Belmont, Mo., un-der Brig.-Gen. U. S. Grant , were composed of theMrst Brigade, Brig.-Gen. John A. McClernand ;27th Illinois, Col. N. B. Buford ; 30th Illinois, Col.Philip B. Fouke; 31st Illinois, Col. John A. Lo-gan ; Dollins’ Co. Illinois Cavalry, Capt. J. J.Dollins; Delano’s Co. Illinois Cavalry, Lieut . J. K.Catlin; Battery B, 1st Illinois Lt. Artillery, Capt.Ezra Taylor. Second Brigade, Col. Henry Dough-erty : 22d Illinois , Lieut.-Col. H. E. Hart, and 7th
Iowa, Col. J. G. Lauman,— the whole commandnumbering 3114 men.
The gun-boats Tyler, Capt. Henry Walke, and Lex-ington, Capt. B. N. Stembel, also bore a part in. theengagement.
The loss sustained by the Union troops, accord-ing to the revised official returns, was 120 killed,383 wounded, and 104 captured or missing,—total, 007. The navy lost 1 killed and 2 wounded.
The superior officer on the Confederate side wasMaj.-Gen. Leonidas Polk , with Brig.-Gens. G. J.Pillow and B. P. Cheatham in subordinate com-mand. The troops under them immediately en-gaged consisted of the 13th Arkansas , Col. JamesC. Tappan; 11th Louisiana , Col. S. F. Marks (com-