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LYON, NATHANIEL (1818-1861) , See also:

AMERICAN

American soldier, was See also:

BORN, IGNAZ, EDLER VON (1742–1791)

born in See also:

ASHFORD

Ashford, See also:

CONNECTICUT

Connecticut, on the 14th of See also:

JULY

July 1818, and graduated at See also:

West Point in 1841. He was engaged in the See also:

Seminole See also:

War and the war with See also:

Mexico, won the See also:

BREVET (a diminutive of the Fr. bref)

brevet of See also:

CAPTAIN (derived from Lat. ca put, head, through the Low Lat. capitanus)

captain for his gallantry at Contreras and Churubusco, and was wounded in the See also:

ASSAULT (from Lat. ad, to or on, and saltare, to leap)

assault on the See also:

CITY (through Fr. cite, from Lat. civitas)

city of Mexico. In 185o, while serving in See also:

California, he See also:

CON

con-ducted a successful expedition against the See also:

INDIANS, NORTH AMERICAN

Indians. He was promoted captain in 1851, and two years later was ordered to the See also:

East, when he became an ardent opponent of " States' Rights " and See also:

SLAVERY

slavery. He was stationed in See also:

KANSAS (known as the Sunflower State ")

Kansas and in See also:

MISSOURI

Missouri on the See also:

EVE

eve of the See also:

CIVIL

Civil War. In Missouri not only was sentiment divided, but the two factions were eager to resort to force See also:

long before they were in the other border states. Lyon took an active See also:

PART

part in organizing the See also:

Union party in Missouri, though greatly hampered, at first by the Federal See also:

government which feared to provoke hostilities, and afterwards by the military See also:

COMMANDER

commander of the See also:

DEPARTMENT (Fr. departement, from departir, to separate into parts)

department, See also:

General W. S. Harney. On Harney's removal in See also:

APRIL

April 1861, Lyon promptly assumed the command, called upon See also:

ILLINOIS

Illinois to send him troops, and mustered the Missouri contingent into the See also:

UNITED

United States' service. He See also:

broke up the See also:

MILITIA (Fr. milice, Ger. Miliz, from Lat. miles, soldier, militia, military service)

militia See also:

CAMP (from Lat. campus, field)

camp at St See also:

Louis established by the secessionist See also:

GOVERNOR (from the Fr. gouverneur, from gouverner, O. Fr. governer, Lat. gubernare, to steer a ship, to direct, guide)

governor of Missouri, Claiborne F. See also:

Jackson, and but for the See also:

EXPRESS (through the French from the past participle of the Lat. exprimere, to press out, by transference used of representing objects in painting or sculpture, or of thoughts, &c. in words)

express See also:

PROHIBITION (Lat. prohibere, to prevent)

prohibition of Harney, who had resumed the command, would have proceeded at once to active hostilities.

In all this Lyon had co-operated closely with See also:

Francis P. See also:

Blair, Jr., who now obtained from See also:

PRESIDENT (Fr. president, from Lat. praesidens, post-Augustan Lat. for praeses, director, ruler, from praesidere, to sit in front of, preside)

President See also:

Lincoln the definitive removal of Harney and the See also:

ASSIGNMENT, ASSIGNATION, ASSIGNEE

assignment of Lyon to command the Department of the West, with the See also:

RANK (O.Fr. rant or rent, mod. rang, generally connected with the O.E. and O.H.G. bring, a ring)

rank of brigadier-general. On Lyon's refusal to accede to the Secessionists' proposal that the See also:

state should be neutral, hostilities opened in See also:

EARNEST (probably a corruption of the obsolete arles or erles, adapted from Lat. equivalent arrha, due to a confusion with the adjective " earnest," serious, O. Eng. eornust, cognate with Ger. ernst)

earnest, and Lyon, having cleared Missouri of small hostile bands in the central part of the state, turned to the See also:

SOUTHERN

southern districts, where a Confederate See also:

army was advancing from the See also:

ARKANSAS

Arkansas border. The two forces came to See also:

ACTION

action at See also:

Wilson's See also:

Creek on the loth of See also:

AUGUST (originally Sextilis)

August 1861. The Union forces, heavily outnumbered, were defeated, and Lyon himself was killed while striving to rally his troops. He bequeathed almost all he possessed, some $30,000, to the war funds of the See also:

NATIONAL

national government. See A. See also:

Woodward, Memoir of General Nathaniel Lyon (See also:

HARTFORD

Hartford, 1862) ; See also:

James See also:

PECKHAM, JOHN (d. 1292)

Peckham, See also:

LIFE

Life of Lyon (New See also:

York, 1866) ; and T. L. Snead, The Fight for Missouri (New York, 1886). Also Last See also:

POLITICAL

Political Writings of General Nathaniel Lyon (New York, 1862).

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