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of their arms, and surrendered into the hands of Captain Lyon; after which, while thus disarmed and surrounded the whole state, and to reduce it, as avowed by General Lyon, to the exact condition of Maryland. We have at Booneville and Lexington. On June 20, 1861, General Lyon and Colonel F. P. Blair, with an estimated forcesand of the enemy had been sent to that point by General Lyon and Colonel Blair, with a view to intercepting hved reliable intelligence that he was pursued by General Lyon from the northeast, and by Lane and Sturgis fromth an attack by a large force of the enemy under General Lyon, which was concentrated near Springfield, Missou, but finally won by our troops. In this action General Lyon was killed while gallantly endeavoring to rally was an act of humanity to his bitterest enemy. General Lyon's surgeon came in for his body, under a flag of igned to the command made vacant by the death of General Lyon. He signalized his entrance upon the duty by a