With Leonidas Polk's Confederate army straddling the Mississippi in the autumn of 1861, local Union commander Brig. General U.S. Grant p...

The Navy Strikes at Belmont
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With Leonidas Polk's Confederate army straddling the Mississippi in the autumn of 1861, local Union commander Brig. General U.S. Grant p...
To confirm the veracity of the old idiom that "necessity is the mother of invention," one need look no further than the Union...