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The Photographic History of The Civil War: in ten volumes, Thousands of Scenes Photographed 1861-65, with Text by many Special Authorities, Volume 1: The Opening Battles. (ed. Francis Trevelyan Miller) 34 4 Browse Search
Colonel William Preston Johnston, The Life of General Albert Sidney Johnston : His Service in the Armies of the United States, the Republic of Texas, and the Confederate States. 27 1 Browse Search
William F. Fox, Lt. Col. U. S. V., Regimental Losses in the American Civil War, 1861-1865: A Treatise on the extent and nature of the mortuary losses in the Union regiments, with full and exhaustive statistics compiled from the official records on file in the state military bureaus and at Washington 23 1 Browse Search
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Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War: The Opening Battles. Volume 1., In command in Missouri. (search)
Price, with an estimated force of 25,000, upon Lyon, at Springfield. Their movement was intended t and unwilling to reenlist. At Springfield General Lyon had about 6000 men, unpaid and badly fed, at. I had no time to lose. The situation of Lyon at Springfield was critical, and the small disias regiment near Leavenworth, to the support of Lyon at Springfield. Amidst incessant and conflictin affairs from that which was existing when General Lyon left Boonville for Springfield on the 5th oby special engine to Rolla, with dispatches for Lyon, and for news of him. In his letter of August 9th, the day before the battle, Lyon states, in answer to mine of the 6th, that he was unable to detethe 10th between about 6000 Union troops, under Lyon, and a greatly superior force under Price and McCulloch. I was informed that General Lyon had been killed, and that the Union troops under Sigel w by Commander John Rodgers with Brigadier-General Nathaniel Lyon. From a photograph. two gun-boat
Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War: The Opening Battles. Volume 1., Wilson's Creek, and the death of Lyon. (search)
rder. During the morning Colonel Sigel visited Lyon's headquarters, and had a prolonged conference,; those about Springfield immediately under General Lyon moving out to the west on the Little York r by Totten.-editors. Every available man of Lyon's was now brought into action and the battle rand a suspension of the fury took place. General Lyon had bivouacked near the head of his column tack by the Confederates, from the direction of Lyon's front, was made, the confusion of Sigel's men hill on the east bank of Wilson's Creek toward Lyon's left, and an attack by other troops from thatshould not bring up some other troops. To this Lyon assented, and directed the aide to order up the messengers passed each other without meeting. Lyon repeated his order for the regiment to come forwo of his men of the 2d Kansas bore the body of Lyon through the ranks, Lehmann bearing the hat and ould assume command, but visited the remains of Lyon on his way to find Sturgis. These were taken c[39 more...]
Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War: The Opening Battles. Volume 1., Arkansas troops in the battle of Wilson's Creek. (search)
led reports as to the strength and movements of Lyon's command were momentarily expected, through sp out of the Federal lines, by permission of General Lyon, and, coming in a circuitous route by Pond ed to the first advance of the enemy, under General Lyon. He had posted the 3d Louisiana Infantry (he first reception to the main column under General Lyon. He was ably supported by the gallant Missing, perhaps simultaneously with the advance of Lyon, General Sigel, commanding the left column of t but the troops more immediately opposed to General Lyon had not done so well. General Price and hito know the outcome. Just at this time, General Lyon appeared to be massing his men for a final ng me to move at once to their assistance. General Lyon was in possession of Oak Hill; his lines we the brave commander of the Federal forces, General Lyon, was killed, gallantly leading his men to wit is difficult to measure the vast results had Lyon lived and the battle gone against us. Gener[4 more...]
Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War: The Opening Battles. Volume 1., The flanking column at Wilson's Creek. (search)
regiment clad in militia gray. The bulk of General Lyon's forces were on the west side of the city.uring the morning I sent a staff-officer to General Lyon's headquarters for orders, and on his returenemy from the rear. I immediately went to General Lyon, who said that we would move in the evening the north-west, announcing the approach of General Lyon's troops; I therefore ordered the four piecth to that part of the battlefield on which General Lyon's troops were engaged. We were now on the tly forming the left of their line, confronting Lyon, as we could observe from the struggle going onemed as if we had directed our own fire against Lyon's forces. I therefore ordered the pieces to ce circumstances — the cessation of the firing in Lyon's front, the appearance of the enemy's deserter in advance on the road to Skegg's Branch, that Lyon's troops were coming up the road and that we muff from Springfield and not be able to join General Lyon's forces, we followed the Fayetteville road[1 more...]
Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War: The Opening Battles. Volume 1., The Pea Ridge campaign. (search)
n, the minor . engagements at Boonville and Carthage, the sanguinary struggle at Wilson's Creek on the 10th of August, forever memorable by the heroic death of General Lyon. The retreat of our little army of about 4500 men to Rolla, after that battle, ended the first campaign and gave General Sterling Price, the military leader ohe 13th of June, 1861, when the first expeditions started from St. Louis to the north-west and south-west of Missouri, and comprising the three campaigns under Generals Lyon, Fremont, and Curtis, we must acknowledge the extraordinary activity represented in these movements. As war in its ideal form is nothing else than a continuou being able to communicate with and assist each other. My own brigade of 1118 men, which had gained the enemy's rear, was beaten first, and then the forces of General Lyon, 4282 men, after a heroic resistance were compelled to leave the field. The enemy held the interior lines, and could throw readily his forces from one point t
Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War: The Opening Battles. Volume 1., Union and Confederate Indians in the civil War. (search)
h the view of having him make a treaty with the Confederacy. But he declined to make a treaty, and in the conference expressed himself as wishing to occupy, if possible, a neutral position during the war. A majority of the Cherokees, nearly all of whom were full-bloods, were known as Pin Indians, and were opposed to the South. Commissioner Pike went away to make treaties with the less civilized Indian tribes of the plains, and in the mean time the battle of Wilson's Creek was fought, General Lyon killed, and the Union army defeated and forced to fall back from Springfield to Rolla. Chief Ross now thought that the South would probably succeed in establishing her independence, and expressed a willingness to enter into a treaty with the Confederate authorities. On his return from the West in September, 1861, Commissioner Pike, at the request of Mr. Ross, went to Park Hill and made a treaty with the Cherokees. The treaties made with each tribe provided that the troops it raised
Taney on the Merryman case Kentucky Missouri Lyon captures camp Jackson Boonville skirmish the Misther a company of regulars under command of Captain Nathaniel Lyon, an officer not only loyal by nature and haut also imbued with strong antislavery convictions. Lyon found valuable support in the watchfulness of a Unio the heavy German population; and from these sources Lyon was enabled to make such a show of available militarnquestionable evidences of intended treason that Captain Lyon, whom President Lincoln had meanwhile authorized away a secession mob insulted and attacked some of Lyon's regiments and provoked a return fire, in which aboisis came when, on June i , Governor Jackson and Captain Lyon, now made brigadier-general by the President, meommand to maintain the neutrality of Missouri, while Lyon insisted that the Federal military authority must beration as an unconstitutional military despotism. Lyon was also prepared for this contingency. On the afte
fronting Union and Confederate forces began to produce the conflicts and casualties of earnest war. As yet they were both few and unimportant: the assassination of Ellsworth when Alexandria was occupied; a slight cavalry skirmish at Fairfax Court House; the rout of a Confederate regiment at Philippi, West Virginia; the blundering leadership through which two Union detachments fired upon each other in the dark at Big Bethel, Virginia; the ambush of a Union railroad train at Vienna Station; and Lyon's skirmish, which scattered the first collection of rebels at Boonville, Missouri. Comparatively speaking, all these were trivial in numbers of dead and wounded — the first few drops of blood before the heavy sanguinary showers the future was destined to bring. But the effect upon the public was irritating and painful to a degree entirely out of proportion to their real extent and gravity. The relative loss and gain in these affairs was not greatly unequal. The victories of Philippi an
civilian officials, whose counsel and cooperation were essential to his usefulness and success. While his resources were limited, and while he fortified St. Louis and reinforced Cairo, a yet more important point needed his attention and help. Lyon, who had followed Governor Jackson and General Price in their flight from Boonville to Springfield in southern Missouri, found his forces diminished beyond his expectation by the expiration of the term of service of his three months regiments, anes, against nearly treble numbers, in the battle of Wilson's Creek, at daylight on August 10. The casualties on the two sides were nearly equal, and the enemy was checked and crippled; but the Union army sustained a fatal loss in the death of General Lyon, who was instantly killed while leading a desperate bayonet charge. His skill and activity had, so far, been the strength of the Union cause in Missouri. The absence of his counsel and personal example rendered a retreat to the railroad term
John G. Nicolay, The Outbreak of Rebellion, Chapter 10: Missouri. (search)
command of an officer afterward famous-Captain Nathaniel Lyon, of the Second United States Infantry. organization soon became unmistakably known to Lyon, Blair, and the Union Safety Committee, who, byreased to ten thousand men. With this force Lyon felt himself strong enough to crush the buddingparation, and, at two o'clock in the afternoon, Lyon, at the head of his battalion of regulars, with to be burned, to prevent any sudden descent by Lyon upon the capital; and during the afternoon and the Cabinet, Postmaster-General Blair favoring Lyon and his friends, Attorney-General Bates those o regiments had unanimously chosen him. With Lyon once more in power, the conspirators felt that d States troops and disbanding the Home Guards; Lyon, on the contrary, insisted that the Governor shtown fifty miles farther up the Missouri River, Lyon, on June 16th, the day following his arrival, lg the night, and early next morning (June 17th) Lyon made an unopposed landing four miles below Boon[12 more...]