Affair at Camp Jackson: Nathaniel Lyon, Part VII: Lyon in Drag

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Hi - I found the confirmation of the story in a memorandum by Franklin A. Dick, later PMG of St. Louis, who was a Lyon cohort and Blair brother-in-law, located at the Library of Congress. He wrote how the entire ruse came off, though to what purpose I don't know. Anyway, I was skeptical as well, but when presented with such evidence, as well as the more colloquial evidence that has surfaced over the years indicating the same story, I had to relent. How he managed to cover the beard is indeed a mystery; perhaps he shaved it. If so, no one has said. Oh, I should have mentioned in the previous post that Mira Alexander, the widow whose costume Lyon appears to have donned, was Franklin A. Dick's mother-in-law (his wife's mother). Or so I recall. Glad you all are enjoying the book.

Chris Phillips

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