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VAN DORN, EARL

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VAN DORN, EARL
(1820 - 1863) Confederate major general whose raid on Holly Springs destroyed Grant's supply depot only later to be killed by a jealous husband. Excessively rare war-date A.L.S. ""Earl Van Dorn"" adding rank ""Headquarters, 1st Division, Army of the Potomac"", Virginia, Nov. 12, 1861, to Gen. Samuel Bonham. In full: ""The mistake referred to was one of the Asst. Adj. Gen'l., and entirely inadvertently made. The number given to the Brigade in the Division, is tactically made. Your position of course is in the right"". A great document written within two months of his being appointed major general and serving in Virginia; by January, 1862 he was made commander of the Army of the West in the Trans-Mississippi. Very good condition.