(CIVIL WAR MISSOURI) Missouri Statesman Extra broadside on

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(CIVIL WAR--MISSOURI.) Missouri "Statesman--Extra" broadside on Battle of Wilson's Creek. Letterpress broadside newspaper extra, 9 1/4 x 5 1/4 inches; toned, unevenly trimmed. Columbia, MO, 20 August 1861

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This extra features "More News from the Battle at Springfield": a little-known eyewitness account from the Battle of Wilson's Creek, the first major battle west of the Mississippi. A Confederate-allied soldier named Warren Smith from Boone County described a battle "fought on both sides with the most determined bravery." He describes gallant leadership and wounds to the Confederate generals Price, Clark, and Slack, offers a detailed accounting of the health of "Boone County boys," and records the death of Union general Nathaniel Lyon, "killed by a single shot with a rifle in the hands of a private from Bates County. . . . When he fell, the fact was known by the Confederate troops, and a shout went up from the whole line." After the battle, Confederate souvenir hunters "plucked hars from the tail of his horse, almost stripping . . . the last one." A humorous anecdote is recounted in the voice of a German-American soldier wounded during the rout of Franz Sigel's brigade: "Gen. Sigel told us to scharge bay'nets, but by tam, we scharge tother way."