. Sherman and his campaigns: a military biography . acommission in the Prussian army, but afterwards emigratedto the United States, and took up his residence at St. Louis,in Missouri. Duiing the winter of 1860, in anticipation ofthe war, he organized and commanded a company of militia,and subsequently took part with it in the capture of the seces-sion camp near the city by General Lyon, in May, 1861. Hiscompany being mustered into the service of the United States,on the 17th of July, 1861, he took part, under General Lyon,in the battle of Booneville ; on the 2d of August fought atDug Springs,
. Sherman and his campaigns: a military biography . acommission in the Prussian army, but afterwards emigratedto the United States, and took up his residence at St. Louis,in Missouri. Duiing the winter of 1860, in anticipation ofthe war, he organized and commanded a company of militia,and subsequently took part with it in the capture of the seces-sion camp near the city by General Lyon, in May, 1861. Hiscompany being mustered into the service of the United States,on the 17th of July, 1861, he took part, under General Lyon,in the battle of Booneville ; on the 2d of August fought atDug Springs, in Southwestern Missouri, and on the 10th of thesame month was engaged in the battle of Wilsons Creek,during which Lyon was killed. He was then promoted to becolonel of the Twelfth Missouri Volunteers, and at the headof that regiment took part in the brief campaign under Fre-mont. At the battle of Pea Ridge, on the 7th and 8th ofMarch, 1862, Colonel Osterhaus commanded with abihty the THE NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY ASTOR, LENDX ANDTILOEN //-y^^af^c. c.^. ^yC
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