Chapter Iii. Return to Duty--General Harney's Attitude--Nathaniel

Lyon in Command--Defense of the St. Louis Arsenal--Service as Mustering Officer--Major of the First Missouri--Surrender of Camp Jackson--Adjutant-general on Lyon's Staff--A Missing Letter from Fremont to Lyon--Lyon's Reply--Battle of Wilson's Creek--Death of Lyon--A Question of Command During the Retreat--Origin of the Opposition of the Blairs to Fremont--Affair at Fredericktown.