. Battles and leaders of the Civil War : being for the most part contributions by Union and Confederate officers . nded Grant bore down upon the Confederate jjosition, and, thoughstubbornly resisted, he gradually fought his way forward, driving the Con-federates to the river bank and captuiing the camp. Polk had been deterred from sending in the tirst instance a larger force tomeet Grants attack by the reports which his scouts made of the movementsof the transi^orts upon the river, and of the position and numbers of thecolumns from Fort Holt and Paducah,— all tending to show that the landingup
. Battles and leaders of the Civil War : being for the most part contributions by Union and Confederate officers . nded Grant bore down upon the Confederate jjosition, and, thoughstubbornly resisted, he gradually fought his way forward, driving the Con-federates to the river bank and captuiing the camp. Polk had been deterred from sending in the tirst instance a larger force tomeet Grants attack by the reports which his scouts made of the movementsof the transi^orts upon the river, and of the position and numbers of thecolumns from Fort Holt and Paducah,— all tending to show that the landingupon the opposite side of the river was a mere feint, while the real designwas an attack upon Columbus. In spite of this, however, as we have seen,he placed at Belmont a force fully equal to that with which Grant was now that this force was being defeated, and learning at the sametime that there was no enemy upon the Kentucky shore near enough tothreaten seriously his position, he promptly moved over to Belmont additionalreenforcements. Striking Grant u23on the flank and rear, he drove him from.
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