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The Daily Dispatch: August 17, 1861., [Electronic resource], Runaway (search)
he morning. General Lyon fired the first gun, when the battle immediately began. Severe cannonading was kept up for two or three hours, when the fire of Captain Totten's artillery proving too severe for the enemy, they gradually fell back towards their encampment on Wilson's Creek. General Lyon's cavalry was posted on the enei's artillery on the right. Then began a terrific attack, spreading slaughter and dismay in the ranks of the enemy, and pursuing them to their camp, shells from Totten's artillery setting fire to their tents and baggage wagons, which were all destroyed. A Louisiana regiment and a Mississippi regiment seemed to have suffereds on the north of the enemy's camp. The battle raged from sunrise until one or two o'clock in the afternoon. The Confederates, in overwhelming force, charged Totten's battery three distinct times, but were each time repulsed with great slaughter. Gen. Lyon fell early in the day. He had been previously wounded in the leg,