Excerpt from The Scout of Pea Ridge

Disaster came swift and sure to the Union cause in Missouri after the lamentable death of General Nathaniel Lyon.

General Price swept clear up to the Missouri River with his army, capturing Lexington with over three thousand prisoners, and was allowed to escape unscathed.

In this book real history does not commence until the capture of Lexington by Major White. In this episode as well as in the brilliant charge of Fremont's Body Guard under the command of Major Zagonyi Lawrence and his troop personate an independent troop of cavalry called the Irish Dragoons, under the command of Captain Naughton.

In the charge on Springfield Captain Naughton lost his lieutenant and several of his men, but Major Zagonyi refused to acknowledge that Captain Naughton's company had any part in the charge, and a fierce controversy arose between the two.

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