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Title: Frank Leslie's scenes and portraits of the Civil War ...
Year: 1894 (1890s)
Authors: Leslie, Frank, 1821-1880
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Publisher: New York : Mrs. F. Leslie
Contributing Library: Lincoln Financial Foundation Collection
Digitizing Sponsor: The Institute of Museum and Library Services through an Indiana State Library LSTA Grant

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THE DUEYEE ZOUAVES CARRYING THE BODY OF LIEUTENANT GREBLE FROM THE FIELD AT GREAT BETHEL. The Federal troops, after having burnt Little Bethel, arrived at Great Bethel at ten oclock in the morning. Here they found the Confederatesin great force, under the command of Colonel Magruder, and strongly posted behind batteries of heavy guns. It was here that Lieutenant Greble waskilled. The young hero fell dead by the side of his gun. His body was placed on a gun carriage and carried off the field by his sorrowing men.
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THE DEATH OF GENERAL NATHANIEL LYON, AT THE BATTLE OF WILSONS CREEK, NEAR SPRINGFIELD, MO. General Lyon fell at the head of his little armv of 5,500 men. in a desperate fight at Wilsons Creek, Mo., on the 10th of August, 1861, whiieleading a charge against the Confederate forces under Ben McCulloch, numbering 23,000 men. General Lyon was educated at the United StatesMilitary Academy at West Point, where he was graduated with distinction in 1841.

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