The Death of General Nathaniel Lyon, at the Battle of Wilson’s Creek, near Springfield, Mo.
(from Frank Leslie’s Illustrated History of the Civil War…, edited by Louis Shepheard Moat, Published by Mrs. Frank Leslie, New York, 1895)
“General Lyon fell at the head of his little army of 5,500 men, in a desperate fight at Wilson’s Creek, Mo., on the 10th of August, 1861, while leading a charge against the Confederate forces under Ben McCulloch, numbering 23,000 men. General Lyon was educated at the United States Military Academy at West Point, where he was graduated with distinction in 1841.”