van dorn loses 4,200. to show you the extent of his losses, this is part of the confederate dead that are piled up in front of battery robinette right here. it's interesting. on the left foreground, the gentleman that's propped up on the very left is colonel william p. rogers of the second texas. if you ever go to corinth, mississippi -- and i hate to say this. i don't know this. i'm not trying to be flippant. if the monument is still standing on the square, i believe that's supposed to be the likeness of rogers on that confederate monument in the courthouse square. so if you get there remember me kindly as you look up. i was at a seminar in fredericksburg, virginia, and that guy said that william p. rogers was up on that statue. i figured you all need a reprieve. after corinth the confederate government lost faith in van dorn. no, really? and his ability to lead an independent army. they sent john c. pemberton to supersede him. van dorn received a core command as a result. beginning in november of '62 gra

van dorn was hot. van dorn told him if he. >> the author of the article he would have been recanted. van dorn said --van dorn according to him quote talking about forest the general expressed his conviction that my two great willingness to listen to stories to get the credit to his discredit. one thing led to another that throughout throughout followers today denied directly expressed my relief in his treachery and falsehood. suggesting there was a good of place and time as any to settle her difficulties. an action to my word i stepped to her my sword was hanging on the wall snatched it down and forests was really excited to see it. he had written and advanced one step for this sort have drawn and a space of flames but even as they achieve my own sword a wave of some kind seem to pass over his countenance in the slowly return his sword and steadily regarded me and said general van dorn you i am not afraid of. but i will not fight you and i leave you to reconcile with yourself a the gross wrong you have

and van dorn has to get out of there as best he can. -- loses 2500, van dorn loses 4200. to show you the extent of his losses, this is part of the confederate dead that are piled up -- it's interesting. on the left foreground, the gentleman that is propped up on the very left is colonel william p lodger's -- if you ever go to current, mississippi, i hate to say this, i don't know this, i'm not trying to be flippant right now. if the monument is still standing over the square, i believe that's supposed to be the likeness of rodgers on the confederate monument. so, if you get there, remember me kindly. you know, i was at a seminar in virginia out there. and that guy said that william p rogers was up on that statue. i figure y'all need a reprieve. after current, the confederate government lost faith in earl van dorn and his ability to lead an independent army. they sent john c pemberton to supersede him. that's even more -- as the new army and department commander, van dorn received a core command as a result. beginning in november of 62, grant rim -- against vicksburg. and

in 1935 the van dorn's lost. it was a circle of sophisticated types that wrote interesting opinion pieces into a world where his intellect was stimulating. fdr who made certain to learn about willkie's personal affairs could be heard on the earliest oval office taping system describing her as an awfully nice girl who writes for the magazine and so on and so forth and even helped wendell wright better and think of his ideas is genuine admiration and response to political cues of publishers of the "herald tribune" fortunate and plan the fondly were beginning to regard wealthy as a possible dark horse for the presidency. suddenly van dorn found yourself sheering willkie's mind with the managing editor of "fortune" magazine, russell davenport skull and bones ordered the service in 1918 with the aef and a major figure in henry luce's publication empire. in july of 1839 a guest at the fortune roundtable he took a whole group of by storm davenport expostulated andis said that they davenport dedicated himself to the futu

tennessee creates its own army just like the state armies that is a discussion about van dorn being a major general in mississippi. but i should harris had brigadier general in tennessee while the state army of tennessee. and unlike him the mississippi forces the tennessee army will remain in existence for almost two months and begin to take much more shape an organization before join the confederacy. many off those officers would simply be ported over as confederate generals. in june, and june, poke travels to richmond in may to jefferson davis. helk is still the bishop of louisiana part he and davis sit down. they have a set of long discussions. poke is an incredible job of laying out the strategic problemshe that face the confederacy along the mississippi river valley. and through tennessee, kentucky, and the gulf coast. and davis is very impressed. they are still good friends, davis was a senator from mississippi. they knew themselves very well before the war and saw each other routinely. and so davis can think of no better man than to take over the job of commanding the army comb

matt gave us an example of an earl van dorn patterned flag in his talk. the first corps becomes a permanent force in the army of tennessee, and polk is the first and most senior corps commander. they're really created in the gathering in march, 1862. bragg comes up from pensacola, florida. beauregard brings polk's troops south, and by now, albertson johnson, and beauregard are both present. we get the battle of shiloh, and really the most interesting thing for our purposes here are the rivalries, the problems that grow up out of the battle of shiloh. braxton bragg in his oh so winning way when he arrives in corenth and he sees the troops, the first thing he writes home in a letter to his wife, he refers to polk's force as polk's mob. a sneer at their lack of training and discipline. and then on the eve of battle, april 5th, the march up from corenth has not gone well. the attack at shiloh, the surprise that the confederates think they need doesn't appear to happen. and so bragg and beauregard basically argue to go back, just turn around and go back to cor