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372 Trans-Mississippi Department he often reminded his men of the valor they exhibited there as an incentive to other achievements.

There is a bill now before Congress to make the battleground of Wilson Creek a national park. An option has already been secured on about 300 acres of the battlefield. Aside from the historic memories associated with this part of the Ozark Plateau, the reservation could be made very attractive, for the ground has great diversity of scenery, and the winding valley of Wilson Creek, viewed from the summit of "Bloody Hill," where a pile of native stone marks the spot on which General Lyon died, looks very picturesque.

On the evening of the 1st of June last, while the Confederate Reunion was on. Colonel Winfield Peters, of Baltimore, read before the Veteran Cavalry Association of the Army of Northern Virginia a lengthy historical paper on the circumstances of the wounding of General J. E. B. Stuart, which is said by many to be the only authentic account ever made public. Colonel Peters obtained his information from the men who saw Stuart wounded. He was at the time a Lieutenant, and was on the Yellow Tavern Battlefield, between the lines, getting the wounded removed, when Stuart received his mortal wound.

The narrative of Colonel Peters, as related before the Cavalry Association, is very lengthy, but it ought to be preserved, and as he has kindly furnished "Our Confederate Column" with the manuscript, it is published in three parts: Last Sunday the first part appeared, this Sunday the second part is printed and next Sunday the third and concluding paper will appear.