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[Bringbackthedraft]

If I remember correctly, Lyon lost his head in this battle to a cannon ball. Its been over 30 years since I did studies on the CW.

[STONEWALLS]

...thanks for posting this Mainepats fan....the trans -Mississippi campaigns are largely overlooked....most Americans think that the CW was mostly about the fighting in Virginia...it was much, much bigger than that...I know that from my family history....one of my g-grandfathers was in the 6th Texas cavalry, so we have stories from him about the terrible fighting the Army of the West engaged in.

[mkjessup]

Steve Earle, liberal-lefty that he might be, actually had a very good song about this battle, entitled appropriately
‘Ben McCulloch’, here are the lyrics:

We signed up in San Antone my brother Paul and me
To fight with Ben McCulloch and the Texas infantry
Well the poster said we’d get a uniform and seven bucks a week
The best rations in the army and a rifle we could keep

When I first laid eyes on the General I knew he was a fightin’ man
He was every inch a soldier every word was his command
Well his eyes were cold as the lead and steel forged into tools of war
He took the lives of many and the souls of many more

Well they marched us to Missouri and we hardly stopped for rest
Then he made this speech and said that we’re comin’ to the test
Well we’ve got to take Saint Louie boys before the Yankees do
If we control the Mississippi then the Federals are through

Well they told us that our enemy would all be dressed in blue
They forgot about the winter’s cold and the cursed fever too
My brother died at Wilson’s creek and Lord I seen him fall
We fell back to the Boston Mountains in the North of Arkansas

CHORUS
Goddamn you Ben McCulloch
I hate you more than any other man alive
And when you die you’ll be a foot soldier just like me
In the devil’s infantry

And on the way to Fayetteville we cursed McCulloch`s name
And mourned the dead that we’d left behind and we was carrying the lame
I killed a boy the other night who’d never even shaved
I don’t even know what I’m fightin’ for I ain’t never owned a slave

So I snuck out of camp and then I heard the news next night
The Yankees won the battle and McCulloch lost his life

[REPEAT CHORUS]

[netguide]

http://home.usmo.com/~momollus/MOFACTS.HTM

Missouri was heavily involved in the Civil War. See above for many interesting facts.

[catfish1957]

My great great great grandfather Hiram A. Linzy died from wounds suffered at Wilson's Creek. He was in the 1st AR cavalry.

RIP

[pyx]

History is written by the victors. -- Winston Churchill

The rest of the quote also applies.

There are a terrible lot of lies going about the world, and the worst of it is that half of them are true. -- Winston Churchill

[Sherman Logan]

Lyon was not a typical (early war) Union officer in his aggressiveness. Had he lived he would probably have attained high rank and quite possibly have changed the course of the war.

[SunkenCiv]

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