LYON, Adelia C.
Reminiscences of the Civil War: Compiled from the War Correspondence of Colonel William P. Lyon and from Personal Letters and Diary.
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First edition of Reminiscences of the Civil War: Compiled from the War Correspondence of Colonel William P. Lyon and from Personal Letters and Diary by Mrs. Adelia C. Lyon
First edition of the Civil War memoir of William Penn Lyon. Octavo, original cloth, tissue-guarded frontispiece. Presentation copy, inscribed on the flyleaf, "Compliments of Mrs. Adelia C. Lyon Wm. P. Lyon." In good condition. Uncommon signed.
At the outbreak of the American Civil War, William Penn Lyon formed a company of volunteers in Racine County and was elected their Captain. Lyon's company became a component of the 8th Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry Regiment and mustered into service September 17, 1861. The 8th Wisconsin was ordered to Missouri, in the Western Theater of the war, and attached to General Ulysses S. Grant's Army of the Tennessee. They participated in skirmishes along the Mississippi River to secure passage for Union forces south into Mississippi and Louisiana. At the end of the war, Colonel Lyon was given an honorary brevet to Brigadier General.
Reminiscences of the Civil War: Compiled from the War Correspondence of Colonel William P. Lyon and from Personal Letters and Diary.
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