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Headquarters Department of the West, Booneville, Mo., June 17, 1861. The steamers A. McDowein command of the camp, we pushed on towards Booneville, chasing the cowardly wretches who outmannedroops attached will bring their companies to Booneville with the greatest despatch. They will procen account. An eye-witness of the fight at Booneville, on Monday last, at 8 A. M., about six mileshe Missouri River, and marched thence toward Booneville. A few companies of State troops met them about six miles below Booneville, and attacked Lyon's forces, Company B, Blair's regiment, being the position on the river, four miles south of Booneville. Gen. Parsons, with some fifteen pieces oely afterward. It was currently reported at Booneville that Gen. Lyon remarked, if the fire of the n Lyon's forces. Lyon has now possession of Booneville, and has issued a proclamation. The State t at a point fifteen or twenty miles west of Booneville, and are organizing, and preparing fully for[1 more...]
Doc. 260.-General Lyon's proclamation. Booneville, June 18, 1861. To the People of Missouri: Upon leaving St. Louis, in consequence of war made by the Governor of this State against the Government of the United States, because I would not assume on its behalf to relinquish its duties, and abdicate its rights of protecting loyal citizens from the oppression and cruelty of the secessionists in this State, I published an address to the people, in which I declared my intention to use the force under my command for no other purpose than the maintenance of the authority of the General Government, and the protection of the rights and property of all law-abiding citizens. The State authorities, in violation of an agreement with Gen. Harney on the 2d of May last, had drawn together and organized upon a large scale the means of warfare, and, having made a declaration of war, they abandoned the Capital, issued orders for the destruction of the railroad and telegraph lines, and proc