Tag Archives: Nathaniel Lyon

“The Daylight of Deliverance” – Nathaniel Lyon Responds to the 1860 Election Results

Posted on November 29, 2021 by Kristen M. Trout

Two months after the death of Brigadier General Nathaniel Lyon at Wilson’s Creek, The Last Political Writings of Gen. Nathaniel Lyon was published. Utilizing many of Lyon’s political articles and letters he wrote while in Kansas to The Manhattan Express, this remarkable source … Continue reading →

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Fallen Leaders: Brigadier General Nathaniel Lyon, Part II

Posted on August 13, 2021 by Kristen M. Trout

Read Part I here. Following the fateful Planters’ House Hotel meeting in St. Louis on June 11, 1861, the newly-promoted Brigadier General Nathaniel Lyon took action immediately to oust the Missouri State Guard and secessionists from the state. At that … Continue reading →

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Fallen Leaders: Brigadier General Nathaniel Lyon, Part I

Posted on August 10, 2021 by Kristen M. Trout

Part one of two As the first Federal general officer to be killed-in-action in the American Civil War, Nathaniel Lyon was a man who devoted his life to country, duty, and discipline. To some, he was a crazed Unionist, sadist, … Continue reading →

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CW & Pop Culture: Steve Earle’s “Ben McCulloch”

Posted on January 19, 2020 by Jon-Erik Gilot

I’ve been a longtime Steve Earle fan and I’m here today to share something with you… Steve Earle is cooler than crap. Here’s a guy who cut his teeth in the music business under the tutelage of the great Townes … Continue reading →

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Railroads: Lyon’s Life Line

Posted on October 31, 2018 by ECW Guest Post

ECW welcomes back guest author Kristen M. Pawlak On July 7, 1861, Captain Chester Harding wrote to Adjutant General Lorenzo Thomas in Washington, DC, laying out the movements of the Federal Army of the West en route to destroy Confederate General … Continue reading →

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Sherman’s Visit to the Wilson’s Creek Battlefield in 1885

Posted on September 5, 2018 by Kristen M. Trout

ECW welcomes back guest author Kristen M. Pawlak Ever since the guns were silenced in the spring of 1865, veterans and civilians alike trek the battlefields of the Civil War to inspire them and understand the carnage and sacrifice that … Continue reading →

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“Unparalleled Insult and Wrong to the State”: Unionism and the Camp Jackson Affair of May 1861 (Part 2)

Posted on January 18, 2017 by ECW Guest Post

Emerging Civil War is pleased to welcome guest author Kristen M. Trout Just south of St. Louis stood the St. Louis Federal Arsenal, filled with over 38,000 rifles and muskets that the secessionists (under the name Missouri Volunteer Militia, which … Continue reading →

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“Unparalleled Insult and Wrong to the State”: Unionism and the Camp Jackson Affair of May 1861 (Part 1)

Posted on January 17, 2017 by ECW Guest Post

Emerging Civil War is pleased to welcome guest author Kristen M. Trout On May 13, 1861, the headline “Fight Between Rioters and the Home Guard – Several Persons Killed” adorned the covers of the nation’s most popular newspapers.[1] St. Louis … Continue reading →

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On The Trail with Sterling Price and John Brown

Posted on July 8, 2016 by Rob Orrison

Recently I was “dragged”  on a family trip out to the far west….well, the Civil War far west, Kansas and Arkansas.  My friends and family who live in the region promised me “there are some really cool Civil War sites … Continue reading →

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