General Nathaniel Lyon, who makes such a stirring time in Missouri, attracts so much attention that our readers may want to know something about him. He is a native of New Haven, Connecticut, of an old and respectable family. He entered the U. S Military Academy, June,1837, and must, therefore, be about forty years of age. He graduated the eleventh in a class of fifty-two, which is a very good standing. Major Zaloni B. Tower of Massachusetts, (now at Fort Pickens,) was the head of the class, and Capt. H. G. Wright of Connecticut, the second. Lyon was promoted Second Lieutenant, July 1, 1841, and First Lieutenant in February, 1847. He was brevetted Captain, August 20th, 1847, “for gallant and meritorious conduct in the battles of Contreras and Churubusco ” He was wounded at the Belen Gate of Mexico, September 1847. Since then he has been employed in the ordinary service of the army. His prompt, sagacious and energetic conduct in Missouri, proves him to be an able, as well as true soldier. He has put the rebels up to fast time, and if they remain on their feet, is likely to drill them in the running exercise, in a manner equally useful and extraordinary. The rebels realize the old proverb, “there is a lion in the way.” — Cin. Gazette
Western Reserve Chronicle, Warren, OH