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Wilson's Creek. Explanations to the plan of the battle, of Wilson's Creek. A Capt. Totten's Battery. B Section of Totten's Battery. C Dubois's Battery.
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by Price, their best General, advanced slowly and warily, reaching Wilson's Creek, ten miles south of Springfield, on the 7th.
Lyon purposed here to surprise them by a night attack; but it was so late when all was ready that he deferred the attempt until the 9th, when he again advanced from Springfield in two columns; his main body, led by himself, seeking the enemy in front; while Sigel, with 1,200 men, was to gain their rear by their right.
Price had planned an attack on our camps that night; but, jealousies arising, had resigned the chief command to McCulloch, who had recalled the order to advance, because of the intense darkness of the night.
At 5 A. M., of August 10th, Lyon opened
Hartford. Published by O. D. Chase and Company. 1866.
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