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Brigadier General Nathaniel Lyon, born in Ashford, Conn., in 1818 and a graduate of the U.S. Military Academy in 1841, fell at or near this spot while commanding the Federal forces in the Battle of Wilson Creek on August 10, 1861. He is honored here along with the hundreds of brave men, North and South, who on this field died for the rights as God gave them to see the right.
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