The enemy gave up all idea of detaching troops from Columbus.

His losses were very heavy for that period of the war.
Columbus was beset by people looking for their wounded or dead kin, to take them home for medical treatment or burial.

I learned later, when I had moved further south, that Belmont had caused more mourning than almost any other battle up to that time.

The National troops acquired a confidence in themselves at Belmont that did not desert them through the war.
The day after the battle I met some officers from General Polk's command, arranged for permission to bury our dead at Belmont and also commenced negotiations for the exchange of prisoners.

When our men went to bury their dead, before they were allowed to land they were conducted below the point where the enemy had engaged our transports.