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San Antonio (Texas, United States) (search for this): entry van-dorn-earl
Texas (Texas, United States) (search for this): entry van-dorn-earl
Galveston (Texas, United States) (search for this): entry van-dorn-earl
David E. Twiggs (search for this): entry van-dorn-earl
Earl Van Dorn (search for this): entry van-dorn-earl
Morrison R. Waite (search for this): entry van-dorn-earl
Reese (search for this): entry van-dorn-earl
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H. H. Sibley (search for this): entry van-dorn-earl
Earl Dorn (search for this): entry van-dorn-earl
Van Dorn, Earl
Military officer; born near Port Gibson, Miss., Sept. 17. 1820; graduated at West Point in 1842, and served in the war against Mexico, receiving brevets for gallantry at Cerro Gordo, Contreras, Churubusco, and at the capture of the city of Mexico, where he was wounded.
After serving in several Indian campaigns, he resigned, Jan. 31, 1861, and was commissioned a colonel in the Confederate army.
He was ordered to Texas in April, 1861, to secure for the Confederates the remnant of the forces betrayed by Twiggs (see Twiggs, David Emanuel). At that time seven companies, under Major Sibley, were at Matagorda Bay, preparing to embark for the North on the Star of the West, under convoy of the gunboat Mohawk.
These vessels did not make their appearance, and Sibley embarked on two lighters for Tampico, Mexico.
Lack of coal and provisions compelled him to turn back.
Four vessels, with 1,500 Texans under Van Dorn, came into the bay, and captured Sibley and his whole comma