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	Major General Earl Van Dorn of the Confederate Army
		Van Dorn was promoted to a Brigadier General in the Provincial Confederate Army with the Mississippi State Troops in January 1861, and a major general with them in February.
		Van Dorn's friends said that he was shot in the back, in cold blood, and for political reasons.
		Van Dorn was of the Confederacy's most promising general officers early in the Civil War, but he proved to be a disappointment.
	www.mycivilwar.com /leaders/dorn_earl.htm (645 words)

	TN Encyclopedia: EARL VAN DORN
		Van Dorn was unattended and sitting at a desk in the Matt Cheairs' home, later known as Ferguson Hall, when shot once in the back of the head, apparently while writing a pass for Peters.
		Van Dorn is buried in Port Gibson, Mississippi, near the plantation where he was born, September 17, 1820.
		Van Dorn's only notable Civil War action in Tennessee was a minor victory at the battle of Thompson's Station on March 4 and 5, 1863.
	tennesseeencyclopedia.net /imagegallery.php?EntryID=V002 (323 words)

	Van Dorns Mounted Raids - 4th Illinois Cavalry (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Van Dorn was subsequently transferred to the Army of Mississippi, headquartered at the river stronghold of Vicksburg, where he repulsed a Union amphibious attack that summer.
		Afterward Van Dorn remained in command of Confederate forces in northern Mississippi but came under the strict supervision of the new departmental chief Lieutenant General John C. Pemberton, and was assailed by widespread criticism of his military abilities.
		Van Dorn's depot attack was a major factor in prolonging the struggle in that sector of combat, keeping the Mississippi River in Rebel hands until July 1863, when Grant finally succeeded in taking the river stronghold by siege.
	www.angelfire.com /ca3/4thillinoiscavalry/VanDorn.html (6111 words)

	Earl Van Dorn (1820-1863)
		Earl (Buck) Van Dorn (1820-1863), soldier and Confederate major general, the son of Peter A. Van Dorn and Sophie Donelson Caffery, was born in Port Gibson, Mississippi, on September 20, 1820.
		In 1858 Van Dorn participated in an engagement at Wichita Village in Kansas territory.
		Van Dorn altered his original battle plans, choosing instead to attack Curtis in his strongly defensive position near the tavern.
	www.thelatinlibrary.com /chron/civilwarnotes/vandorn.html (1496 words)

	Earl Van Dorn - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Earl Van Dorn (September 17, 1820 – May 7, 1863) was a career U.S. Army officer and a Confederate major general during the American Civil War.
		It was Van Dorn's reputation as a womanizer, not a Union bullet, that led to his death.
		Van Dorn is buried at Port Gibson, Mississippi.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Earl_Van_Dorn (288 words)

	Major General Earl Van Dorn (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Earl Van Dorn was born near Port Gibson, Mississippi, on September 17, 1820.
		Upon Van Dorn’s resignation on January 31, 1861, Edmund Kirby Smith was appointed in his stead and served until he also resigned to join the South.
		Earl Van Dorn was commissioned Colonel and, on June 5, 1861, Brigadier General in the Confederate service, and was assigned to Texas, where some of the Union forces surrendered to him.
	freepages.military.rootsweb.com /~virgilgw/third/vandorn.html (316 words)

	Across Five Aprils: People: Earl Van Dorn
		Van Dorn himself suffered from cold and chills, after his boat capsized in an icy river during his retreat.
		Van Dorn and Price failed in their frontal assaults against Corinth, while Bragg was having problems in Tennessee.
		On May 7, 1863, Van Dorn was killed, not in battle, but at the hands of a local doctor, who claimed that Van Dorn had violated the sanctity of his marriage.
	www.kenanderson.net /educate/html/vandorn5.html (634 words)

	Earl Van Dorn, 1820-1863
		Van Dorn had a massive numerical advantage at this point, but failed to take advantage of it, allowing Curtis to pull back into a stronger position.
		Van Dorn was appointed to command at this critical location, and his ten thousand men were more than enough to see off this first Union attack on the city.
		Van Dorn’s conduct at Corinth was the subject of a court of inquiry, at which he was cleared of all charges.
	www.historyofwar.org /articles/people_van_dorn.html (1240 words)

	Handbook of Texas Online:
		Earl (Buck) Van Dorn, soldier and Confederate major general, the son of Peter A. Van Dorn and Sophie Donelson Caffery, was born in Port Gibson, Mississippi, on September 20, 1820.
		Van Dorn altered his original battle plans, choosing instead to attack Curtis in his strongly defensive position near the tavern.
		Van Dorn's sister, in a personal memoir entitled A Soldier's Honor (1902), presented strong arguments that the doctor had more sinister reasons that entailed disloyalty to the Confederate cause he had originally supported.
	www.tsha.utexas.edu /handbook/online/articles/VV/fva5.html (1234 words)

	Van Dorn's Cavalry Raid
		For on the morning of 20 December, Van Dorn descended on Holly Springs with 3,500 cavalry and infantry to wreck havoc.
		Van Dorn decided to attack with infantry rather than cavalry, but after easily getting through the Union pickets his men were met by a savage fussilade.
		Van Dorn and his cavalry covered 500 miles in two weeks and handed the Union forces perhaps their most significant defeat in Mississippi at Holly Springs.
	www.fortunecity.com /victorian/museum/63/battles/transms/cavalry1.html (2937 words)

	The Civil War in Arkansas - Places \| Pea Ridge
		Van Dorn was confident that the Confederate Army of the West - the name he bestowed on his new command - could surprise the Yankees and open wide the road to Missouri.
		Van Dorn had no qualms about dividing his army in the presence of the enemy because he confidently assumed that the Federals were still in their fortifications at Little Sugar Creek, facing south.
		Beauregard suggested that Van Dorn transfer the Army of the West to Corinth, Mississippi, as part of a concentration of all Confederate armies west of the Appalachian Mountains.
	www.civilwarbuff.org /pea_ridge.html (6255 words)

	General Earl Van Dorn
		General Earl Van Dorn left New Orleans on 25 March 1862 and was detained at Memphis, Tenn., until 10 April while her ironwork was completed.
		General Earl Van Dorn herself ran ashore and sustained a terrific carronade for a few minutes until she was able to back off.
		All of the vessels of the Confederate River Defense Fleet at this engagement were either captured or destroyed except for General Earl Van Dorn which managed to escape because of her superior speed.
	www.history.navy.mil /danfs/cfa4/general_earl_van_dorn.htm (452 words)

	WFotW ~ Faulkner Glossary: "V"
		Van Dorn: A fictional settlement in "Race at Morning," named for Confederate General Earl Van Dorn.
		Van Dorn, General Earl ("Buck"): (September 17, 1820-May 7, 1863) A Confederate general famed for daring raids of both military and domestic natures.
		Faulkner alludes to Van Dorn's raid on Grant's stores in Sartoris/Flags in the Dust and, more significantly, in Light in August, in which Faulkner changes the setting to Jefferson and has the Rev.
	www.mcsr.olemiss.edu /~egjbp/faulkner/glossaryv.html (408 words)

	Generals of the Confederacy (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Van Dorn graduated 52nd in his 1842 West Point class of 56 members.
		After Van Dorn's October 1862 defeat at Corinth, he faced a court of inquiry for his command which included a charge of drunkenness on the battlefield.
		He was shot by a man who claimed Van Dorn had "violated the sanctity of his home." However, some claimed Van Dorn was murdered for political reasons.
	www.alexandria.lib.va.us /lhsc_online_exhibits/generals/vandorn.html (170 words)

	Octavia Van Dorn Sulivane (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Below: Octavia Van Dorn Sulivane, brother of Earl Van Dorn, daughter of Peter Van Dorn.
		During the Civil War, she wrote a long, fascinating letter to her sister Jane—an annotated transcript of the letter is available here.The transcription is comprehensively footnoted by Edgar Crisler, a descendant.
		She writes in detail about the Military Court of Inquiry into charges of incompetence against her beloved brother Earl; she describes her trip home from the trial where she shared a railway car with "the President" (i.e., Jefferson Davis), whom she overheard saying that it was the most complete vindication he had ever seen.
	www.rootsweb.com /~msclaib3/OctaviaVanDorn.htm (267 words)

	Attack Written Deep And Crimson (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Rosecrans missed the Mexican War, whereas Van Dorn was in the thick of the fighting, being brevetted twice for bravery.
		Van Dorn knew that Rosecrans had 15,000 troops at Corinth, with another 8,000 at the nearby garrisons at Iuka, Burnsville, Rienzi, Danville and Chewalla.
		Van Dorn needed to move quickly, but had to wait while his men rebuilt the bridge.
	www.freerepublic.com /focus/fr/625828/posts (1986 words)

	Article by Dean Burchfield - 4th Illinois Cavalry (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Van Dorn's Confederate cavalry stood to horse shivering in the pre-dawn chill of December 20, 1862.
		With Van Dorn's raid came the ridicule of failure, due to Dickey's failure to engage or divert.
		Van Dorn's successful raid led to critical evaluations of Colonel Dickey's raid and failure to forewarn his superiors of Confederate cavalry movements.
	www.angelfire.com /ca3/4thillinoiscavalry/page7.html (3850 words)

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		Van Dorn was shot inside a closed room with a fl powder pistol.
		Van Dorn was sent to cavalry command and actually did well at Holly Springs Raid, where he destroyed Garnt's Supply Train.
		Van Dorn was carried to a bed where he died four and a half hours later.
	www.us-civilwar.com /vandorn.html (2634 words)

	Major General Earl Van Dorn Commander (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		General Van Dorn's sister wrote a book entitled A Soldier's Honor in 1902 which argued that Dr. Peters' reason for the murder was to eliminate a Confederate commander.
		General Van Dorn's army was defeated at the Battle of Pea Ridge.
		A cavalry raid lead by General Van Dorn on Holly Springs, Mississippi destroyed enough supplies that General Grant was forced to terminated his campaign in central Mississippi.
	www.civilwarfamilyhistory.com /new_page_128.htm (338 words)

	[34.0] October 1862: The Men Fell Like Grass
		Van Dorn's men still kept up the pressure and by nightfall were before the defenses around the town itself.
		At 10:00 AM, Van Dorn sent his men in with a full-scale assault that was met by a storm of cannonballs, shells, and canister, inflicting terrible casualties on the attackers.
		If Van Dorn had been rash in his capacity as an army commander and his men had paid bitterly for it, that sort of willingness to take great chances was often a virtue in a cavalry commander.
	www.vectorsite.net /twcw_34.html (7867 words)

	Mississippi Civil War Battle Corinth American Civil War
		Van Dorn was senior officer and took command of the combined force numbering about 22,000 men.
		Van Dorn arrived within three miles of Corinth at 10:00 am on October 3, and moved into some fieldworks that the Confederates had erected for the siege of Corinth.
		As a result, Van Dorn was defeated, but not destroyed or captured, at Hatchie Bridge, Tennessee, on October 5.
	americancivilwar.com /statepic/ms/ms002.html (885 words)

	This Week in the Civil War September 28,1862
		From the editor: For the ever-aggressive Earl Van Dorn, Corinth is the third strike.
		Van Dorn acknowledges his failure in his battle report in which he admits "I am condemned....In my zeal...I may have ventured too far with inadequate means." The picture is considerably brighter for the Union commander William Rosecrans.
		Earl Van Dorn reports: "I have made [a] union with General Price and am now before Corinth." Van Dorn's advance is threatened when it is discovered that the Federals have partially burned the Davis Bridge which is the only crossing, within a day's march, over the Hatchie River.
	www.civilweek.com /1862/sep2862.htm (4885 words)

	Battle Summary: Franklin, TN
		Earl Van Dorn coupled with an equally inept response by Union Maj. Gen.
		Van Dorn’s attack was so weak that when Granger received a false report that Brentwood, to the north, was under attack, he believed it, and sent away most of his cavalry, thinking that the Confederate general was undertaking a diversion.
		This incident in his rear caused Van Dorn to cancel his operations and withdraw to Spring Hill, leaving the Federals in control of the area.
	www.cr.nps.gov /hps/abpp/battles/tn016.htm (250 words)

	Highbeam Encyclopedia - Search Results for Dorn
		Both as a composer and as a highly articulate music critic he was a leader of the romantic movement.
		Van Dorn Demag displaying new technology on presses.
		Van Dorn replaces president of big plastic machinery unit.
	www.encyclopedia.com /SearchResults.aspx?Q=Dorn (506 words)

	This Week in the Civil War October 5,1862
		Earl Van Dorn, desperate to save his army, turns his attention to the "small and rickety" Crum's Bridge six-miles away.
		As Van Dorn works to extricate his army, Rosecrans' pursuit is halted when he asks General Grant for additional supplies.
		Despite the protestations of William Rosecrans, Henry Halleck is unwilling to overrule the decision of General Grant to call a halt to the pursuit of Earl Van Dorn's defeated army.
	www.civilweek.com /1862/oct0562.htm (4073 words)

	Peter Aaron Van Dorn, 1773-1837
		Judge Peter Aaron Van Dorn, son of Aaron Van Dorn and Ghacy Schenck (some-times spelled “Aure” and “Gesha”).
		U.S. transport on the river, and the transport responded with a bombardment that destroyed the remaining houses at the foot of the hill, and left Van Dorn’s house the sole survivor of
		Peter Van Dorn’s ancestry can be traced through the 1600s because of the good records kept by the extended Van Dorn family.
	www.rootsweb.com /~msclaib3/PeterVanDorn.htm (2256 words)

	Van Dorn Family Genealogy Forum (All Messages)
		Re: Earl Van Dorn-Confederate Major-General - nancy asti 11/14/02
		Re: Jabez Vandoren from Iowa - Paula Van Dorn 3/03/00
		Re: confederate major-general earl van dorn - Nancy Bachardy 5/27/01
	genforum.genealogy.com /vandorn/all.html (3582 words)

	The Tarnished Cavalier by Carter, Arthur B.
		Dashing, bold, and fearless in command, Major General Earl Van Dorn was a soldier whose star shone brightly during the early days of the Confederacy.
		Carter sheds new light on Confederate conduct of the war in the western theater during 1861 and 1862, revisits the pivotal battles of Pea Ridge and Corinth—both of which are important to understanding the loss of the upper South—and introduces new perspectives on the defense of Vicksburg and the Middle Tennessee operations of early 1863.
		Carter’s narrative juxtaposes Van Dorn's flamboyance with his failings as a commander: although he was a soldier with heroic aspirations, he was also impulsive, reckless, and unable to delegate authority.
	utpress.org /a/searchdetails.php?jobno=T00592 (455 words)

	Pea Ridge National Military Park Ozark Civil War Arkansas Reenactments
		Van Dorn's command consisted of regular Confederate troops commanded by Brigadier General Benjamin McCulloch, and Missouri State Guard Forces commanded by Major General Sterling Price.
		Earl Van Dorn set out to outflank the Union position near Pea Ridge, dividing his army into two columns.
		Van Dorn led a second column to meet the Federals in the Elkhorn Tavern and Tanyard area.
	www.ozarkmerchants.com /pea_ridge_park.html (1006 words)

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