Saturday, May 23, 2015

Diary of John Beauchamp Jones: August 25, 1861

I believe the Secretary will resign; but “immediate still lies on his table.

News of a battle near Springfield, Mo. McCulloch and Price defeat the Federals, killing and wounding thousands. Gen. Lyon killed.

SOURCE: John Beauchamp Jones, A Rebel War Clerk's Diary at the Confederate States Capital, Volume 1, p. 75

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