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Bookmark or Share- General Earl Van Dorn MovieThe Legend of Van Dorn is a movie about General Earl Van Dorn, who was a complex and charasmatic General who reluctantly aligned with the Confederacy during the Civil War.
- Earl Van Dorn - WikipediaEarl Van Dorn (September 17, 1820 – May 7, 1863) was an American major-general who started his military career as a United States Army officer and became famous for successfully leading a defense of a Native American settlement from the Comanche. He joined Confederate forces in 1861 after the Civil War broke out and was a major general when ...
- Earl Van Dorn - American History CentralEarl Van Dorn was a prominent Confederate general officer who commanded the Army of the West from January 29 – June 20, 1862. His military career was cut short when a jealous husband assassinated him in 1863.
- Earl Van Dorn - American Battlefield TrustEarl Van Dorn began his military career after graduating 52nd out of 56 from the United States Military Academy in the class of 1842. He first served in several posts throughout the Southern United States, before being sent to Texas and then Mexico during the Mexican-American War.
- Van Dorn, Earl (1820–1863) - TSHAEarl (Buck) Van Dorn, soldier and Confederate major general, the son of Peter A. Van Dorn and Sophie Donelson Caffery, was born in Port Gibson, Mississippi, on September 20, 1820. He received an appointment from President Andrew Jackson to the Military Academy at West Point.
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