Gen. Nathaniel Lyon, and Missouri in 1861: A Monograph of the Great Rebellion |
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Arkansas arms army arrived artillery attack August authority battalion battery battle battle of Springfield Boonville brigade Brigadier-General Cairo Camp Jackson Captain Lyon cavalry Cavender Charles CHESTER HARDING citizens Claib Jackson Colonel Blair Colonel Sigel command companies confidence dispatch duty election enemy eral F. P. BLAIR Federal Filley flag force Fremont Frost Government Governor Jackson Gratz Brown guns Harney headquarters Home Guards hundred Illinois infantry Iowa Jefferson City John July Kansas Legislature letter Lieutenant-Colonel Lincoln LOUIS ARSENAL loyal Lyon's Major Hagner meet ment miles Military bill minute-men Missouri Compromise Missouri Democrat Missouri Volunteers morning movement NATHANIEL LYON night North o'clock officers organization party peace position President Price purpose re-enforcements rebel Republicans retreat Rolla Safety Committee secession secessionists Second Lieutenant sent slave slavery South Southern Springfield Sterling Price street Sweeney telegraphed thousand tion traitors troops Union United Washington Wilson's Creek
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Page 432 - All that is necessary to accomplish the object, and all for which the slave States have ever contended, is to be let alone and permitted to manage their domestic institutions in their own way.
Page 409 - They believe that the Congress of the United States has the power, under the Constitution, to abolish slavery in the District of Columbia, but that the power ought not to be exercised unless at the request of the people of the District. The difference between these opinions and those contained in the above resolutions is their reason for entering this protest. DAN STONE, A. LINCOLN, Representatives from the County of Sangamon.
Page 205 - Our interests and our sympathies," he said, " are identical with those of the Slaveholding States, and necessarily unite our destiny with theirs. The similarity of our social and political institutions, our industrial interests, our sympathies, habits, and tastes, our common origin and territorial contiguity, all concur in pointing out our duty in regard to the separation which is now taking place between the States of the old Federal Union.
Page 345 - That Congress deems it just and proper to enter upon its records a recognition of the eminent and patriotic services of the late Brigadier-General Nathaniel Lyon. The country to whose service he devoted his life will guard and preserve his fame as a part of its own glory.
Page 210 - My dear Sir: We have a good deal of anxiety here about St. Louis. I understand an order has gone from the War Department to you, to be delivered or withheld in your discretion, relieving General Harney from his command. I was not quite satisfied with the order when it was made, though on the whole I thought it best to make it; but since then I have become more doubtful of its propriety. I do not write now to countermand it, but to say I wish you would withhold it, unless in your judgment the necessity...
Page 102 - Your requisition, in my judgment, is illegal, unconstitutional, and revolutionary ; in its objects inhuman and diabolical, and cannot be complied with.
Page 345 - Lyon, sustained the honor of the flag and achieved victory against overwhelming numbers at the battle of Springfield, in Missouri; and that, in order to commemorate an event so honorable to the country and to themselves, it is ordered that each regiment engaged shall be authorized to bear upon its colors the word "Springfield," embroidered in letters of gold.
Page 354 - The enemy could frequently be seen within twenty feet of Totten's guns, and the smoke of the opposing lines was often so confounded as to seem but one. Now, for the first time during the day, our entire line maintained its position with perfect firmness. Not the slightest disposition to give way was manifested at any point, and while...
Page 252 - But it is equally my duty to advise you that your first allegiance is due to your own State, and that you are under no obligation whatever to obey the unconstitutional edicts of the military despotism, which has enthroned itself at Washington, nor to submit to the infamous and degrading sway of its wicked minions in this State.
Page 353 - ... troops sometimes gaining a little ground, and again giving way a few yards to rally again. Early in this engagement, while General Lyon was leading his horse along the line on the left of Captain Totten's battery, and endeavoring to rally our troops, which were at this time in considerable disorder, his horse was killed, and he received a wound in the leg and one in the head. He walked slowly a few paces to the rear and said,