Union forces led by General Ulysses S. Grant (in his first combat leadership role) overrun a Confederate camp in Belmont, Missouri, on November 7, 1861, but are forced to retreat when Confederate reinforcements arrive.
"Remember that the people you are following didn’t know the end of their own story. So they were going forward day by day, pushed and jostled by circumstances, doing the best they could, but walking in the dark, essentially."
