. The history of our country from its discovery by Columbus to the celebration of the centennial anniversary of its declaration of independence ... the arsenal at St. Louis, forti-fied the city, and by June 1st he had an army organized to meetPrice. He had a sharp little skirmish at Booneville, where therebels had congregated, and drove them out of that town. In theopening of this rebellion he was one of the most valuable officers inour army. As soon as the conflict began in Missouri, Price marched to thesouthwest corner of his State, and meeting the rebel general Mc-Culloch there, with an arm
. The history of our country from its discovery by Columbus to the celebration of the centennial anniversary of its declaration of independence ... the arsenal at St. Louis, forti-fied the city, and by June 1st he had an army organized to meetPrice. He had a sharp little skirmish at Booneville, where therebels had congregated, and drove them out of that town. In theopening of this rebellion he was one of the most valuable officers inour army. As soon as the conflict began in Missouri, Price marched to thesouthwest corner of his State, and meeting the rebel general Mc-Culloch there, with an army from Arkansas, he joined his forces toMcCullochs and took command under him. This was probablywhat he meant by keeping neutral. Then they marched northtogether to find Lyon, who by this time had General Sigel andhis Germans with him. Lyon was encamped at Springfield the last of July, when Mc-Culloch advanced from the south. They first met each other atDug Springs, twenty miles from Springfield, but this engagementdecided nothing. A few days after this, on the 10th of August, Mc-Culloch was encamped on the banks of Wilsons Creek, nine miles. Hauling Cannon. from Lyons camp at Springfield. McCuUoch had much the largestarmy. But it was the raggedest, most starveling armj^ that everwent out to fight. They had lived principall}^ on green corn ontheir march. Hungry, dirty, and ragged, their misery deserved a 30 464 . STORY OF OUR COUNTRY. better cause. Lyon, although in much smaller force, determined togo out and attack them. He knew Springfield was difficult to de-fend, and likely to yield to larger numbers if he allowed McCullochto come and attack him. He set out, therefore, accompanied bySigel to give battle. They marched very silently to surprise theenemy, muffling the wheels of the cannon that their rolling mightnot be heard. Sigel attacked on one side, Lyon on the his force was greatly inferior, Sigel was doing well, andhad taken some prisoners, when he saw a c
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