18 page pamphlet of the "Memoir of General Lyon". Signed by Brigadier General Nathaniel Lyon. Nathaniel Lyon (July 14, 1818 " August 10, 1861) was the first Union general to be killed in the American Civil War. He is noted for his actions in Missouri in 1861, at the beginning of the conflict, to forestall secret secessionist plans of the governor Claiborne Jackson. He had fought in the Second Seminole War in Florida and the Item ordered may not be exact piece shown. All original and authentic.