Rebellion In Missouri 1861: Nathaniel Lyon And His Army Of The West

The story of General Nathaniel Lyon, whom the author aptly calls a “Missouri Yankee,” is a drama of stirring political-military events breaking on the Western Border in the spring of 1861. In exactly 90 days, Missouri was forever lost to the Confederacy.

The Lyon story is high tragedy staged at the sanguine second battle of the American Civil War—Wilson’s Creek.

Colonel Hans Christian Adamson in Reb...