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Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies, Chapter XXII: Operations in Kentucky, Tennessee, North Mississippi, North Alabama, and Southwest Virginia. March 4-June 10, 1862., Part II: Correspondence, Orders, and Returns. (ed. Lieut. Col. Robert N. Scott) 152 0 Browse Search
Col. John M. Harrell, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 10.2, Arkansas (ed. Clement Anselm Evans) 94 0 Browse Search
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 19. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones) 90 0 Browse Search
Colonel Charles E. Hooker, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 12.2, Mississippi (ed. Clement Anselm Evans) 86 0 Browse Search
Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War: Volume 2. 76 0 Browse Search
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 2. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones) 70 0 Browse Search
Edward Alfred Pollard, The lost cause; a new Southern history of the War of the Confederates ... Drawn from official sources and approved by the most distinguished Confederate leaders. 62 0 Browse Search
Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War: The Opening Battles. Volume 1. 60 0 Browse Search
Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 2. 58 0 Browse Search
The Photographic History of The Civil War: in ten volumes, Thousands of Scenes Photographed 1861-65, with Text by many Special Authorities, Volume 2: Two Years of Grim War. (ed. Francis Trevelyan Miller) 56 0 Browse Search
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Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 19. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), Recollections of General Earl Van Dorn. (search)
ance behind him. The battle of Elkhorn. Van Dorn had planned the battle of Elkhorn well; he ha Never was a general more disappointed than Van Dorn; but no man in all our army was so little sharles XII, and might have been successful; and Van Dorn only abandoned it when convinced that he would army of about eleven thousand muskets. But Van Dorn was never for a moment dismayed. He repulsedor a month; Grant's force was sixty thousand, Van Dorn's was sixteen thousand. He then retired behid him to abandon Mississippi. From that time Van Dorn resumed his proper role as a general of cavalut of this affair came an altercation between Van Dorn and Forrest, which is worthy of note as charato him. This order of Bragg's was repeated by Van Dorn to Forrest, who replied that he did not have Federal raid which had just been reported to Van Dorn by scouts, and Forrest, being ordered to inte seeing his position, pressed vigorously upon Van Dorn's right to force him into the fork; but findi[35 more...]