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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Dug Springs , battle at. (search)
Dug Springs, battle at.
General Lyon was 80 miles from Springfield when he heard of the perils of Sigel after the fight at Carthage.
He pushed on to the relief of the latter, and on July 13, 1861, he and Sigel joined their forces, when the general took the chief command.
The combined armies numbered, at that time, about 6,000 men, horse and foot, with eighteen pieces of artillery.
There Lyon remained in a defensive attitude for some time, waiting for reinforcements which had been calle two columns—20,000—under the respective commands of Generals Price, McCulloch, Pearce, McBride, and Rains. Lyon went out to meet them with about 6,000 men, foot and horse, and eighteen cannon, leaving a small force to guard Springfield.
At Dug Springs, 19 miles southwest of Springfield, in a broken, oblong valley, they encountered a large Confederate force under General Rains.
While the National vanguard of infantry and cavalry, under Steele and Stanley, were leading, they were unexpected
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Stanley , David Sloan 1828 - (search)
Stanley, David Sloan 1828-
Military officer; born in Cedar Valley, O., June 1, 1828; graduated at West Point in 1852, entering the dragoon service.
When the Civil War began he brought off the government property from the forts in the Southwest, and performed good service in Missouri, especially at Dug Springs and Wilson's Creek.
After performing signal service in Mississippi, he became chief of cavalry in the Army of the Cumberland late in 1862, and displayed great skill in the battle of Stone River (q. v.), and afterwards in driving Bragg into Georgia.
Late in 1863 he commanded a division of the 4th Corps.
He was in the Atlanta campaign, and commanded the 4th Corps from July, 1864, to the close of the war. By his arrival on the battlefield at Franklin he averted serious disaster, but was wounded and disabled.
He bad been made major-general of volunteers in November, 1862, and in March, 1865, was brevetted major-general, United States army.
He was retired as brigadiergene