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The First Battle of Boonville was a minor skirmish of the American Civil War, occurring on June 17, 1861, near Boonville in Cooper County, Missouri. [1] [2] Although casualties were extremely light, the battle's strategic impact was far greater than one might assume from its limited nature. The Union victory established what would become an ...
Aug 10, 2021 · On May 10, 1861, Lyon ordered his 6,000 volunteers from across the St. Louis area to rendezvous at the St. Louis Arsenal. Just days prior, Missouri’s pro-secessionist governor Claiborne Jackson had ordered the Missouri Volunteer Militia to gather at Lindell’s Grove to the west of the city – known as Camp Jackson.
Nov 6, 2009 · On August 10, 1861, Union Brigadier General Nathaniel Lyon (1818-61) attacked Confederate forces commanded by General Sterling Price (1809-67) and General Benjamin McCulloch (1811-62). The battle ...
USS General Lyon, originally the De Soto, was recaptured from the Confederate States of America and renamed USS De Soto, and then USS General Lyon, after Brigadier General Nathaniel Lyon . The steamer was put into service by the Union Navy as a storeship and dispatch boat serving the Union ships on the blockade of the Confederacy.
The Missouri Constitutional Convention of 1861–1863 was a constitutional convention held in the state of Missouri during the American Civil War. The convention was elected in early 1861, and voted against secession. When open fighting broke out between Pro- Confederate governor Claiborne Fox Jackson and Union authorities, and Union forces ...
The sacking of Osceola was a Kansas Jayhawker initiative on September 23, 1861, to push out pro-slavery Southerners at Osceola, Missouri. It was not authorized by Union military authorities but was the work of an informal group of anti-slavery Kansas "Jayhawkers". [2] The town of 2,077 people was plundered and burned to the ground, 200 slaves ...
Nathaniel Lyon (1818–1861), the first Union general to be killed in the American Civil War; Paul Newman (1925–2008), award-winning actor, film director and philanthropist. A seasonal resident of Ashford from the opening of the Hole in the Wall Gang Camp in 1988
