General Earl Van Dorn, C.S.A.
(Uniform indicates rank of brigadier general.) Graduated from West Point, 1842; Mexican War veteran. Resigned his U.S. Army commission in January 1861 and was commissioned as colonel in the Confederate Cavalry in March 1861. Promoted to brigadier general in June 1861 and major general in September...
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Alabama Department of Archives and History
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