Colonel Emmet McDonald, C.S.A., (1837-1863) Born in Steubenville, Ohio, in 1837, MacDonald had arrived in St. Louis with his parents by the 1850’s.  In 1861, serving with the Missouri militia, he was captured at Camp Jackson.  He later joined the pro-confederate Missouri State Guard and fought at Wilson’s Creek. After the battle he defended Lyon’s corpse from Southern soldiers intent on mutilating it, he safely delivered the body to Federal authorities in Springfield.  MacDonald commanded a Missouri artillery battery at the battles of Lexington and Pea Ridge.  In mid-1862, MacDonald raised a regiment of cavalry in Arkansas and was part of General Marmaduke’s command and was involved in his raid into southwest Missouri in early 1863. On January 11, in a confusing “ hit and run” battle near Springfield; MacDonald was killed by Federal artillery fire. He was first buried at Wesleyan Cemetery in St. Louis but was reinterred at Bellefontaine Cemetery on February 8, 1865.     (Block 91, Lot 925)