Bibliograph

Rebellion in missouri 1861, Colonel Hans Christian Adamson

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Rebellion in missouri 1861, Colonel Hans Christian Adamson

Language

eng

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no index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Rebellion in missouri 1861

Nature of contents

dictionaries

Responsibility statement

Colonel Hans Christian Adamson

Summary

The story of General Nathaniel Lyon, whom the author aptly calls a "Missouri Yankee," is a drama of stirring political-military events breaking on the Western Border in the spring of 1861. In exactly 90 days, Missouri was forever lost to the Confederacy. The Lyon story is high tragedy staged at the sanguine second battle of the American Civil War-Wilson's Creek. Colonel Hans Christian Adamson in Rebellion in Missouri combines all the necessary elements in the dramatic story. He expertly re-examines Lyon's generalship of the Union Army of the West. He ably reflects upon the significance of the Battle of Wilson's Creek now, a century later, in the light of all the evidence. Moreover, he brings to us, during the centennial year of Lyon's death, a monumental biography of Lyon. The others are eulogistic and written in the stilted and artificial speech of the eighteen sixties

Target audience

adult

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