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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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Colonel Charles E. Hooker, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 12.2, Mississippi (ed. Clement Anselm Evans), Chapter 2: (search)
The president appointed Messrs. Gholson, Anderson and Beene to act as tellers. Upon the first ballot Jefferson Davis received 88 votes, Reuben Davis 1 vote, Earl Van Dorn 1 vote; whereupon Jefferson Davis was declared major-general. Mr. Davis was then in Washington City. Returning home, he found his commission, dated Januaryprejudices and opinions he entertained, and whose fate and fortunes he wished to share. A major-general elected, the convention then elected in their order, Earl Van Dorn, Charles Clark, James L. Alcorn and C. H. Mott as brigadier-generals. Mr. Davis having been elected to the presidency of the Confederate States, Gen. Earl Vanral Orders No.1, dated March 2, 1861, in which the following appointments and elections were announced to the division: Richard Griffith, brigadier-general, vice Van Dorn appointed major-general; Beverly Mathews, adjutant and inspector-general, vice Griffith appointed brigadier-general; William Barksdale, quartermaster-general; Sa
Colonel Charles E. Hooker, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 12.2, Mississippi (ed. Clement Anselm Evans), Chapter 5: (search)
me the great rallying point in the central South. Van Dorn came across the Mississippi with his army of the Wbrigade, Fifteenth and Twenty-second infantry. In Van Dorn's army, Ruggles division, Anderson's brigade, Thirers of the route they should take in retreat. General Van Dorn's division was ordered to be in line of battleishing. An advance was again ordered on the 20th, Van Dorn to move to Farmington and drive the enemy hotly onnridge took position fronting the Purdy road. But Van Dorn, having been sent on a circuitous route toward Farwas still intended to attack, when a telegram from Van Dorn was received stating that at noon, after a conferesplendid results on Sunday, April 6th. When General Van Dorn's army arrived, his effective total was estimay at Tupelo continued. On July 2d he assigned General Van Dorn to the command of the district of the Mississianassas, let us turn to the field of operations in Van Dorn's department and review what had been done in the
Colonel Charles E. Hooker, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 12.2, Mississippi (ed. Clement Anselm Evans), Chapter 6: (search)
ts every day from the 20th to the 27th, at times very heavy and frequently lasting until late at night. On the 28th General Van Dorn, department commander, arrived, and with him the advance of Breckinridge's division, which occupied the city. Guns l number on the Confederate side not one was dismounted, and but two temporarily disabled. The troops gathered by General Van Dorn for the defense of Vicksburg included the brigades of General Helm, General Bowen, General Preston, Colonel Statham ssippi cavalry, Colonel Starke, with Smith. These officers and men are mentioned in the reports of Generals Smith and Van Dorn in the most complimentary terms. The lamented Colonel Statham's brigade, under his own lead, showed a bravery in guardve taken possession of and destroyed several. But the Mississippians alone did not gain this splendid result. As General Van Dorn, himself one of the State's most famous sons, well said: The power which baffled the enemy resided in the breasts of
Colonel Charles E. Hooker, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 12.2, Mississippi (ed. Clement Anselm Evans), Chapter 7: (search)
he latter with Buell. Word was received from Van Dorn that he would be ready to move from Holly Sprmonstration toward Grand Junction, near where Van Dorn lay with 10,000 men. Thereupon Grant masseion on finding out, so late as the 30th, that Van Dorn had left La Grange, Tenn.; the Confederate cand Hurlbut at Bolivar was instructed to watch Van Dorn, this order being followed on the 3d by orderld do, was to check the enemy's advance until Van Dorn could find another crossing place. If Rosecred. On the 9th General Pemberton had ordered Van Dorn and Price and Lovell back to the south bank ont he had now reached. About the same time Van Dorn's rear was threatened by a Federal expeditionton remaining in command in Mississippi, with Van Dorn in command of the army of West Tennessee, whiction and La Grange. On December 20th, General Van Dorn, in command of the cavalry of Pemberton'she forces made an ineffectual effort to check Van Dorn at Pontotoc. Early in December President D[15 more...]
Colonel Charles E. Hooker, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 12.2, Mississippi (ed. Clement Anselm Evans), Biographical. (search)
pying Corinth until the latter part of May. His next service was in command of the district of Mississippi, with headquarters at Vicksburg, during the naval operations against that place in the summer of 1862. After Bragg moved toward Kentucky Van Dorn was left in command of a force called the army of West Tennessee, with which, aided by Price's army of the West, he made an attack on Rosecrans at Corinth, October, 1862, in which his troops made a gallant fight, but suffered heavy loss in the adid cavalry command in Mississippi and west Tennessee, with such able lieutenants as Forrest, Martin, Jackson, Armstrong, Whitfield and Cosby. In March he assailed a force of the enemy at Thompson's Station, Tenn., capturing over 1,000 men. General Van Dorn was one of the brilliant figures of the early part of the war. As a commander of cavalry he was in his element. He was a man of small, lithe figure, elegant person, and a bravery and daring that were unsurpassed. Major-General Edward Car