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Wilson’s Creek
10 Aug 1861 — Nathaniel Lyon, the first Union general to die in the war, is killed keeping Missouri from secession. The state stays — at the price of four years of guerrilla war: the hatched belt on your map.
This is one scene of Chapter 3 — The Illusions of 1861 in The American Civil War, 1861–1865.
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