. The photographic history of the Civil War : in ten volumes . GENERAL EARL \ AN DURN, THE CONFEDERATE COMMANDERAT CORINTH General Earl Van Dorn was born in Mis-sissippi in 1821; he was graduated from WestPoint in 18-42, and was killed in a personalquarrel in 1863. Early in the war General VanDorn had distinguished himself by capturingthe steamer Star of the West at Indianola,Texas. He was of a tempestuous nature andhad natural fighting qualities. During themonth of August he commanded all the Con-federate troops in Mississippi except thoseunder General Price, and it was his idea to for
. The photographic history of the Civil War : in ten volumes . GENERAL EARL \ AN DURN, THE CONFEDERATE COMMANDERAT CORINTH General Earl Van Dorn was born in Mis-sissippi in 1821; he was graduated from WestPoint in 18-42, and was killed in a personalquarrel in 1863. Early in the war General VanDorn had distinguished himself by capturingthe steamer Star of the West at Indianola,Texas. He was of a tempestuous nature andhad natural fighting qualities. During themonth of August he commanded all the Con-federate troops in Mississippi except thoseunder General Price, and it was his idea to forma combined movement with the latters forcesand expel the invading Federals from thenorthern portion of his native Slate and fromeastern Tennessee. The concentration wasmade and the Confederate army, about 22,000men, was brought into the disastrous battle ofCorinth. Brave were the charges made on theentrenched positions, but without avail. THE CONFEDERATE SECONDCOMMAND IN General Sterling Price was a civilian who bynatural inclination turned to soldiering. H
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