When he was sixteen years old he went one day to Booneville, fifteen miles away, to attend a trial in court.

THE RAM Arkansas RUNNING THROUGH OUR FLEET ABOVE VICKSBURG HAULING DOWN A REBEL FLAG AT HICKMAN, KENTUCKY THE OPENING GUN AT BOONEVILLE THE DEATH OF GENERAL LYON

The People of Booneville.

The Governor and most of the State officials had departed the previous day, in the direction of Booneville.

At noon, on the 16th, General Lyon left Jefferson City for Booneville.

Touching at a landing on the left bank of the river, fifteen miles below Booneville, a scout from the enemy's camp came easily into our hands.

[Illustration: THE OPENING GUN AT BOONEVILLE] CHAPTER IV.

The People of Booneville.

Daybreak on the 17th found us slowly moving up the river toward Booneville.

At once our engines were reversed, and the boats moved back to a landing about eight miles below Booneville.

Our troops entered Booneville amid demonstrations of delight from one portion of the inhabitants, and the frowns and muttered indignation of the other.

In Booneville the incidents were not of a startling character.

With the same squad we visited the principal bank of Booneville, and persuaded the cashier to give us a Rebel flag which had been floating for several days from a staff in front of the building.

" Soon after the occupation of Booneville, General Lyon sent a small expedition to Syracuse, twenty-five miles in the interior.

Colonel Blair left Booneville for St. Louis and Washington, while General Lyon attended to the preliminaries for his contemplated movement.

General Lyon was to move thither from Booneville.

At Booneville, General Lyon established a temporary blockade of the Missouri River, by stopping all boats moving in either direction.

The success of the Union arms at Booneville did not silence the Secessionists in St. Louis.

In the affairs that took place after the battle of Booneville, the result was the same.

When he started from St. Louis for Booneville, he ordered General Sweeney to march from Rolla to Springfield as speedily as possible.

About twenty miles from Warsaw, on the road to Booneville, there was a German settlement, known as Cole Camp.

At Hermann, Booneville, and other points, the manufacture of wine from the Catawba grape is extensively carried on.

Brigadier-General C.C. Sullivan of western army fame was one of the five generals, headed by Rosecrans, who recommended Phil Sheridan for promotion to brigadier-general after the battle of Booneville as "worth his weight in gold."