WILSON’S CREEK NATIONAL BATTLEFIELD
Battlefield — Republic, Missouri
Status: Operating · Access: Open to public
Dossier: https://haunthunt.com/place/wilsons-creek-national-battlefield-republic-missouri/

August 10, 1861—the second battle of the war, in Missouri’s cornfields.

A battlefield in Republic, Missouri, Wilson’s Creek National Battlefield is filed here for what the record attaches to it. August 10, 1861—the second battle of the war, in Missouri’s cornfields. HauntHunt files it with the Civil War, dark history and local folklore. Ask the file who haunts it and it answers: Nathaniel Lyon. The dossier holds 2 reported claims, 1 legend and 1 documented fact, with the verified spine filed separately from the lore. The ground is open to visitors.

Wilson's Creek is the '61 — the 'August 10' that's the second battle, the 'Lyon' that's the first general. The 'Bloody Hill' is the held — the 'three attacks' that's the repulsed, the 'Sigel' that's the routed. The 'Missouri' is the split — the 'State Guard' that's the Price, the 'Germans' that's the Union.
The 'premonition' is the Lyon — the 'oppressed' that's the night, the 'shot' that's the 9:30. The 'Ray House' is the hospital — the 'sorghum' that's the field, the 'still stands' that's the farmhouse. Wilson's Creek is the lost — the 'won' that's the South, the 'kept' that's the border state.
The file keeps Wilson's Creek: the 1861 second battle, the Lyon death, the Bloody Hill, and the Ray House.
Wilson's Creek is the archive's Missouri file — the border's price.

WHY THIS FILE MATTERS
Wilson's Creek is the archive's Missouri file — the first dead general.
A battlefield keeps its hill — the file's suggestion being that Wilson's Creek's hold is the first: the 'Lyon' that's the killed, the 'Bloody' that's the held, and the 'border' that's the decided.

FILED CLAIMS — 2 on record, reported not verified
· [Investigation claim] apparition: Reported figures on Bloody Hill and at the Ray house. The fort's documented violence is the soil the reports grow in — Republic, Missouri keeps both on file. It originates in investigator claims — compelling inside the team's log, unverifiable outside it. The account appears in 'Wilson’s Creek'. The apparition is the file's anchor — every other report orbits it.
  source: Wilson’s Creek (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilson%27s_Creek_National_Battlefield)
· [Documented legend] named ghost legend: General Lyon is said to ride the field. The figure answers to Nathaniel Lyon in the retellings. Ground that took casualties rarely stays quiet in local memory, and Wilson’s Creek National Battlefield in Republic, Missouri took its share. It's a documented legend: the telling is real, the contents remain folklore. The account appears in 'Wilson’s Creek'. The name travels further than the proof; the sightings keep renewing the lease.
  source: Wilson’s Creek (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilson%27s_Creek_National_Battlefield)

HISTORY — 1 documented facts
· The August 10, 1861 battle is documented; Lyon died on Bloody Hill. A fort with documented casualties writes its own foundation — the lore comes after. It's verified history: the dossier's load-bearing detail. The detail is preserved in 'Wilson’s Creek'. Documented ground is what separates this file from pure legend — this is part of it.

SOURCES — 1 cited
· Wilson’s Creek — Wikipedia
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilson%27s_Creek_National_Battlefield

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