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hey further state that Gen. Johnston is in good health, not withstanding the hardships encountered on the trip from California, and that he would be in San Antonio on or about the 15th of September. Gen. Lyon killed by a Darkey, The Fort Smith (Ark,) Times contains the following in relation to the death of General Lyon at the 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 fj. 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