Brigadier General Nathaniel Lyon Commanding United States Army in Missouri 1861 Frame Style:Verdigris Frame and any space that remembers

and any space that remembers the republic's first turn at world war

when Jackson's heir Van Buren inherited a panicked economy and Moore — Tammany man

when the colonies were a thin Atlantic fringe and the interior belonged to other nations entirely

when the Empire State's wards were already rehearsing the quarrels over immigration and loyalty that would define the coming decade

Brigadier General Nathaniel Lyon Commanding United States Army in Missouri 1861 Frame Style:Verdigris Frame and any space that remembersBrigadier General Nathaniel Lyon Commanding United States Army in Missouri 1861. Lyon glares from the frame in the months before Wilson's Creek, the red bearded zealot who seized the St. Louis Arsenal and dragged a divided Missouri into the Union's column a portrait of a man already racing toward the bullet that would find him in August. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress,