1-624-539 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

General Nathaniel Lyon, Union general in the American Civil War, (1862-1867). Lyon (1818-1861) was killed at the Battle of Wilson's Creek in Missouri on 10 August 1861. He was the first Union general to be killed during the conflict. An engraving from volume I of The War with the South : a History of the Late Rebellion, by Robert Tomes, Benjamin G Smith, New York, Virtue & Yorston, 3 Volumes, 1862-1867.