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Wilson's Creek
Battle · Trans-Mississippi
Battle of Wilson’s Creek
August 10, 1861 · near Springfield, Missouri
Battle of Wilson’s Creek · Kurz & Allison · public domain
Narrative
Commanders
At a glance
Outcome
1
The border state
The Fight for Missouri
Why a slave state on the border could decide the war, and how Nathaniel Lyon (North) seized Missouri by force and chased the secessionists south.
2
Dawn, August 10
Bloody Hill
Lyon splits his tiny army for a dawn double-attack; a confusion of gray uniforms wrecks Sigel’s (North) column, and the killing centers on one low ridge.
3
The cost & Missouri’s fate
The Death of Lyon
Lyon falls leading a charge, the war’s first general killed. The South wins a field it cannot hold, and Missouri’s guerrilla nightmare begins.
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