Mrs. Lyon’s Diary.
April 11, 1863.—Orders came to have the 13th, five companies of the 83d Illinois, two of the 71st Ohio, and five of the 5th Iowa cavalry, Colonel Lyon commanding, go out twelve miles to the relief of Major Young.
Reminiscences of the Civil War by William and Adelia Lyon.
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