American Civil War · BATTLE SITE ·
Battle of Wilson’s Creek (1861)
On the American Civil War map as “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.
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- First Battle of Bull Run (chapter 4 of American Civil War)
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- The American Civil War, 1840–1877
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