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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 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
James D. Porter, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 7.1, Tennessee (ed. Clement Anselm Evans), Chapter 12: (search)
the Fourth, J. W. Starnes; McCann's battalion, Maj. Richard McCann, Freeman's battery, Capt. S. L. Freeman, all under Gen. N. B. Forrest. Other troops under General Van Dorn were the division commanded by Brig.-Gen. W. H. Jackson, composed of Brig.-Gen. F. C. Armstrong's and Col. J. W Whitfield's brigades, with King's battery of four guns, and General Cosby's brigade of Martin's division. Colonel Coburn made a determined fight. General Van Dorn stated that Forrest and Armstrong, and General Jackson with his entire division, charged in the most gallant manner upon the enemy on the hill, from which they had previously repulsed the Texas brigade. Aftery, Lieut.-Col. E. B. Trezevant, Tenth Tennessee, Capt. Montgomery Little of Forrest's escort, and Capt. A. A. Dysart, Fourth Tennessee, were mortally wounded. Van Dorn lost 357 killed, wounded and missing. General Forrest reported that when the men saw the gallant Trezevant and Little fall, they raised a shout and pushed the ch
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...]
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 33. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), Building and Commissioning of the Arkansas. (search)
mmand of the Arkansas and finish the vessel without regard to expenditure of men or money. It was provided by President Davis that complete co-operation should be maintained by the Confederate army and navy in defence of Vicksburg, under Major General Van Dorn. The mouth of the Zazoo River was obstructed and guarded, while the armored ram was undergoing, for six weeks, the necessary work of preparation in safety, high up on the stream.. The delays and difficulties of completing the vessel for icial Records, above mentioned. Her engines were low pressure, and her two propellers acted independently. It is said she also had a steam hose apparatus, by which she could repel boarders—a novelty first introduced in naval warfare. * * Gen. Van Dorn reported thirty-seven vessels of the enemy were in sight from Vicksburg. * * * He therefore commanded Lieut Brown to take his vessel through the raft at Haine's Bluff, * * * and attack the upper fleet of the enemy to the cover of the Vicksbur
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 33. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), The end of the Arkansas. (search)
t Grenada, Miss. While thus disabled, he learned from his executive office, Lieut. H. K. Stevens, left in command, that peremptory orders had been sent him by Gen. Van Dorn to co-operate with Gen. Breckinridge in the attack on Baton Rouge. Commander Brown sent positive orders to Lieut. Stevens not to move his vessel until he cou or regardless of the condition of the Arkansas, Capt. Lynch ordered Lieut. Stevens to disobey the instructions of commander Brown and comply with the request of Van Dorn. It this way the Arkansas was placed under the command of Lieut. Stevens, with orders to run 300 miles against time. （Note in A long run with engines, that ld them to return to Baton Rouge as he did not want them. In his official report of the operations at Vicksburg and Baton Rouge, dated September 9, 1862, Maj. Gen. Van Dorn says: I think it due to the truth of history to correct the error, industriously spread by the official reports of the enemy, touching the destruction
The Daily Dispatch: may 22, 1862., [Electronic resource], article 1 (search)
as strong a test as was to be expected under any circumstances. The General Bragg made the first attack, but by some means, after doing some good service, her tiller rope got out of order, she became for the moment, unmanageable, and drifted down the stream. This was, of course, discouraging to the remainder of our fleet, who, of course, considered that she had received some serious injury, and that the test, as far as she was concerned, was unfavorable in its results. The Sumter and Van Dorn were next desperately engaged, butting vigorously at the enemy's boats, shunning no fire, but rushing to close quarters and boldly running, prow on, directly into the opposing boats, having two or three each to deal with. While thus hotly engaged, the Van Dorn swung in shore in the bend, when a shore battery, located there, opened fire upon her, in addition to what she was receiving from two of the enemy's gunboats that were close beside her, within pistol shot range. In this state of
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