“Camp Lyon” St. Joseph Mo1
July 5 1861
General Order
No 6
[Applications and the granting of leaves from the camp were tightened. Guard mounting at seven o’clock A. M. ordered each day.]
5th A General Court Martial will convene at this post, at the tent of Major Crocker on the 8th day of July, A. D. 1861, for the trial of Lt Hungtington2 of Co “B” and such other prisoners as may be brought before it . . . .
[Dress Parade at 7 o’clock P.M. each day. After July 8 afternoon drill superceded by drill of the battalion commencing at 3 P.M.]
1. Nathaniel Lyon, United States Military Academy, 1841, engaged in the Seminole wars, on the coast in California and stationed in Kansas prior to the outbreak of war, was an ardent northern sympathiser. Appointed in charge of the St. Louis Arsenal in February, 1861, he was made a brigadier general in charge of Union forces in St. Louis in May. With F. P. Blair Jr. helped to save Missouri for the Union. He was killed in the Battle of Wilson’s Creek. Aug. 10, 1861.
2. John G. Huntington, Le Claire. Iowa, appointed 1st lt. May 28, 1861, and wounded at Fort Donelson, was killed in battle of Corinth, Miss. Oct 3, 1862.