{"product_id":"damned-yankee-the-life-of-general-nathaniel-lyon-9780807121030","title":"Damned Yankee: The Life of General Nathaniel Lyon","description":"\u003cp\u003eNathaniel Lyon (18181861) was the first Union general to die in the Civil War. Killed at the Battle of Wilsons Creek  Missouri  he became the Norths first war hero  famed as the man who saved Missouri for the Union. In Damned Yankee  chosen by Choice as an Outstanding Academic Book in 1991  Christopher Phillips portrays Lyon not as the savior of a border state threatened by secessionist extremists but as an unbalanced  monomaniacal Unionist zealot who purposelyand perhaps unnecessarilybrought war to a fragile state whose populace had voted overwhelmingly to stay out of the conflict.  Phillips meticulously examines Lyons role in the Camp Jackson affair  his quest to oust the pro-southern governor of Missouri  and his campaign to eliminate the secessionist element in the state. He contends that Lyons actions in Missouri in 1861 were congruent with his dogmatic personality and troubled past. Damned Yankee is a complex  often shocking  portrait of one of the most controversial figures of the Civil War and a sobering study of how the faults of men may greatly affect history.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45647030550581,"sku":"ByrdShop_0807121037","price":47.14,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780807121030.jpg?v=1781686237","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/damned-yankee-the-life-of-general-nathaniel-lyon-9780807121030","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}