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ceiving new troops coming to the support of Price, brought all his men to the front for a final effort. His horse was killed, and he was wounded in the head and leg, but, mounting another horse, he dashed to the front to rally his wavering line, and was shot through the breast. Maj. Samuel D. Sturgis, who was left in command, after continuing the battle three hours, ordered a retreat. Of the 5,000 National troops 1,317 were killed, wounded, or taken prisoners, while of the Confederates, who were 10,000 strong, 1,230 were killed or wounded. The National forces fell back on Springfield in good order, and retreated thence to RoUa, while Gen. McCulloch, the Confederate commander, refused to pursue. Lyon's movement, though resulting in defeat, had enabled the Union men in Missouri to organize a government and array the power of the state on the National side. Gen. Lyon bequeathed $30,000, constituting nearly his entire property, to the government, to aid in the preservation of the Union. A series of articles, written while he was on duty in Kansas in advocacy of the election of Abraham Lincoln, and printed in a local news- paper, were collected into a volume with a memoir, and published under the title of " The Last Politi- cal Writings of Gen. Nathaniel Lyon " (New York, 1862). See also a memoir by Dr. Ashbel Wood- ward (Hartford, 1862) ; James Peckham's " Life of Lyon " (New York, 1866) ; R. I. Holcombe's " Ac- count of the Battle of Wilson's Creek " ; and "The Fight for Missouri," by Thomas L. Snead (New York. 1886).

LYON, Richard, poet, lived in the 17th cen- tury. He entered the ministry, came to this coun- try from England early in life, and in 1644-'7 was private tutor to a young English student in Cam- bridge, Mass. He lived in the family of President Henry Dunster, and with him was appointed to re- vise .John Eliot's " Bay Psalms." In the revision, many hymns taken from other parts of the Bible are inserted under the name of " Spiritual Songs of the Old and New Testament" (20th ed.. 1722)."

LYONS, Albert Brown, chemist, b. in Waimea, Hawaiian islands, 1 April, 1841. He was graduated at Williams in 1865, and at the medical department of the University of Michigan three years later. Pie filled the chair of chemistry in Detroit medical college from 1868 till 1881. when he was called to be consulting chemist to the drug house of Parke. Davis and Co. In this capacity he became well known throughout the United States by his frequent contributions to medical and phar- maceutical journals on adulterations and frauds in drugs. Besides his editorial connection with various medical journals in Detroit, he became in 1887 editor of " The Pharmaceutical Era." Dr. Lyons is a member of scientific societies, and sec- retary of the Detroit academy of medicine. In ad- dition to his many papers, he has published a "Manual of Practical Assaying " (Detroit, 1886).

LYONS, James Oilborne, poet, b. in England; d. in Haverford, Pa.. 2 Jan., 1868. He entered the ministry of the Church of England, and in 1844 came to this country, and was rector of St. Mary's church, Burlington, N. J. In 1846 he removed to Philadelphia, where he taught, and later he became principal of a classical school in Haverford, near that city, remaining there until his death. He published " Christian Songs, Translations, and other Poems " (Philadelphia, 1861).

LYONS, Richard Bickerton Pemell, Earl, b. in Lymington. England, 26 April, 1817; d. in London, 5 Dec, 1887. He was the only son of the first Lord Lyons, and succeeded to the barony 23 Nov., 1858. He was educated at Oxford, and after filling various diplomatic appointments was Brit- ish minister to the United States from December, 1858, till February, 1865, when he returned on ac- count of impaired health. He was appointed am- bassador to Turkey in August of that year, and from 1867 until November, 1887, was ambassador to France. He became a member of the privy council in 1865, was given the degree of D. C. L. by Oxford in the same year, in 1881 was made a viscount, and in 1887 was advanced to an earldom. LVTLE, William Haines, soldier, b. in Cincin- nati, Ohio, 2 Nov., 1826; killed in the battle of Chickamauga, 20 Sept., 1863. His great-grand- father, William, fought in the old French war, and his grandfather, of the same name, was an early pioneer in Ohio, and active in border warfare. His father, Robert T. Lytle, was a mem- ber of congress in 1833-'5. and survey- or of public lands in Ohio in 1835-8. William Haines was graduated at Cin- cinnati college, st ud- ied law, and began practice, but at the beginning of the Mexican war vol- unteered, and was

chosen captain of a

company in the 2d Ohio regiment. He served through the war, resumed practice at its close, was elected to the Ohio legislature, and in 1857 was the unsuccessful candidate of the Democratic party for lieutenant-governor. Soon afterward he be- came major-general of Ohio militia, and at the beginning of the civil war he was commissioned colonel of the 10th Ohio regiment, which he led in West Virginia in 1861. At Carnifex Ferry, 10 Sept., 1861. he commanded a brigade and was se- verely wounded. When he had recovered he had charge of the Bardstown camp of instruction, and then of a brigade in Gen. Ormsby M. Mitchell's operations along the Memphis and Chattanooga railroad. He was again wounded and taken pris- oner at Perryville, Ky., 8 Oct.. 1862, but was soon exchanged, and on 29 Nov. promoted to brigadier- general of volunteers. Thereafter he served ac- tively in the west under Rosecrans till he was killed while leading a charge of his brigade at the battle of Chickamauga. Gen. Lytle was a poet of much merit, but no collection of his verses has appeared in book-form. His best-known poem is that written in 1857, beginning

"I am dying, Egypt, dying;
Ebbs the crimson life-tide fast."

LYTTLETON, William Henry (Baron Westcote), governor of South Carolina, b. in England, 24 Dec, 1724; d. there, 14 Sept., 1808. He was a son of Sir Thomas Lyttleton, bart. In 1755 he was appointed governor of South Carolina, and held the post till 1760, when he was transferred to Jamaica. He was British minister to Portugal in 1766. On 31 July, 1776, he was raised to the Irish peerage, as Baron Westcote of Ballymore, and in 1779, on the death of his nephew, Thomas, the baronetage reverted to him. In 1794 he was created a peer of Great Britain, with the title of Lord Lyttleton. Baron of Frankley, which had been bestowed already on his brother. Sir George, the poet, but had expired with his nephew.