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Brigadier-General Ellison Capers, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 5, South Carolina (ed. Clement Anselm Evans) 2 0 Browse Search
The Daily Dispatch: September 4, 1861., [Electronic resource] 2 0 Browse Search
The Daily Dispatch: September 19, 1861., [Electronic resource] 2 0 Browse Search
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The Daily Dispatch: September 19, 1861., [Electronic resource], Southern war News. (search)
e battle of Oak Hill, in Missouri: A negro man, body servant to Capt. John Griffith, of the gallant Third, was in the hottest of the fight, at Oak Hill, and fought in the last charge like a tiger. He claims to have killed Gen. Lyon. He says, he shot a man in the breast, that was on a large grey horse, and was waving his hat, and he saw him fall. Thus it is very probably that the Abolition Lyon fell by the hands of a darkey. This same black man, finding his youngest master. Benj. Griffith, wounded in the calf of the leg, picked him up, and carried him off of the field; notwithstanding, Ben resisted it with all his might, as he wanted to fire a few more rounds at the Dutch.. When Gen. Lyon was killed. The Fort Smith (Ark,) Times, of the 7th, says: Colonel Mitchell, of Kansas, who was in the battle of Oak Hills, and commanded a Kansas regiment, said that General Lyon was wounded in the thigh and slightly in the body, and had his grey horse killed in the firs