{"id":68384,"date":"2021-08-10T06:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-08-10T11:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/?p=68384"},"modified":"2021-08-10T08:19:56","modified_gmt":"2021-08-10T13:19:56","slug":"death-of-lyon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/death-of-lyon\/","title":{"rendered":"Death of Lyon"},"content":{"rendered":"<a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/exit78\/27774524652\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-109520 size-full\" title=\"The Death of General Nathaniel Lyon, at the Battle of Wilson's Creek, near Springfield, Mo\" src=\"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/The-Death-of-General-Nathaniel-Lyon-at-the-Battle-of-Wilsons-Creek-near-Springfield-Mo.jpg\" alt=\"The Death of General Nathaniel Lyon, at the Battle of Wilson's Creek, near Springfield, Mo\" width=\"2048\" height=\"1850\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/The-Death-of-General-Nathaniel-Lyon-at-the-Battle-of-Wilsons-Creek-near-Springfield-Mo.jpg 2048w, http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/The-Death-of-General-Nathaniel-Lyon-at-the-Battle-of-Wilsons-Creek-near-Springfield-Mo-300x271.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/The-Death-of-General-Nathaniel-Lyon-at-the-Battle-of-Wilsons-Creek-near-Springfield-Mo-1024x925.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/The-Death-of-General-Nathaniel-Lyon-at-the-Battle-of-Wilsons-Creek-near-Springfield-Mo-768x694.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/The-Death-of-General-Nathaniel-Lyon-at-the-Battle-of-Wilsons-Creek-near-Springfield-Mo-1536x1388.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2048px) 100vw, 2048px\" \/><\/a>\n<p><strong>The Death of General Nathaniel Lyon, at the Battle of Wilson&#8217;s Creek, near Springfield, Mo.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>(from Frank Leslie&#8217;s Illustrated History of the Civil War&#8230;, edited by Louis Shepheard Moat, Published by Mrs. Frank Leslie, New York, 1895)<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;General Lyon fell at the head of his little army of 5,500 men, in a desperate fight at Wilson&#8217;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.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Death of General Nathaniel Lyon, at the Battle of Wilson&#8217;s Creek, near Springfield, Mo. (from Frank Leslie&#8217;s Illustrated History of the Civil War&#8230;, edited by Louis Shepheard Moat, Published by Mrs. Frank Leslie, New York, 1895) &#8220;General Lyon fell at the head of his little army of 5,500 men, in a desperate fight at [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-68384","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-frank-leslies-illustrated-newspaper"},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68384","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/21"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=68384"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68384\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68384"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68384"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68384"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}