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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 first part of the action. Lyon fell about fifteen minutes after General Pearce led the Arkansas boys into the fight by a shot in the breast with a small ball. Lyon fell on my shoulder, (Mitchell's,) and I assisted him to the ground. He was riding a bay horse at the time he was killed. Colonel Mitchell is w