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  <titleInfo>
    <title>Earl Van Dorn papers, 1858-1863</title>
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  <name type="personal">
    <namePart>Van Dorn, Earl</namePart>
    <namePart type="date">1820-1863</namePart>
    <role>
      <roleTerm authority="marcrelator" type="text">creator</roleTerm>
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  <typeOfResource collection="yes" manuscript="yes">mixed material</typeOfResource>
  <originInfo>
    <issuance>monographic</issuance>
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  <language>
    <languageTerm authority="iso639-2b" type="code">eng</languageTerm>
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  <physicalDescription>
    <extent>80</extent>
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  <abstract>Letters and telegrams relating to troop movements, supplies and ammunition, the location of enemy gunboats and the capture of prisoners.  Sent primarily from Camp Moore, La., Chattanooga, Tenn., and Vicksburg and Jackson, Miss.  Includes letters received by Van Dorn while in Mississippi.  Correspondents include John C. Breckinridge and Daniel Ruggles.</abstract>
  <note>Open to research.</note>
  <note>Confederate army officer.</note>
  <note>Collection material in English.</note>
  <note>Forms part of: Miscellaneous Manuscripts collection.</note>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Breckinridge, John C. (John Cabell)</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1821-1875</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Ruggles, Daniel</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1810-1897</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="corporate">
      <namePart>Confederate States of America.</namePart>
      <namePart>Army.</namePart>
    </name>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <geographic>Camp Moore (La.)</geographic>
    <topic>History</topic>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <geographic>Chattanooga (Tenn.)</geographic>
    <topic>History</topic>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <geographic>Jackson (Miss.)</geographic>
    <topic>History</topic>
    <temporal>Civil War, 1861-1865</temporal>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <geographic>Louisiana</geographic>
    <topic>History</topic>
    <temporal>Civil War, 1861-1865</temporal>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <geographic>Mississippi</geographic>
    <topic>History</topic>
    <temporal>Civil War, 1861-1865</temporal>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <geographic>Tennessee</geographic>
    <topic>History</topic>
    <temporal>Civil War, 1861-1865</temporal>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <geographic>United States</geographic>
    <topic>History</topic>
    <temporal>Civil War, 1861-1865</temporal>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <geographic>United States</geographic>
    <topic>History</topic>
    <temporal>Civil War, 1861-1865</temporal>
    <topic>Equipment and supplies</topic>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <geographic>United States</geographic>
    <topic>History</topic>
    <temporal>Civil War, 1861-1865</temporal>
    <topic>Naval operations</topic>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <geographic>United States</geographic>
    <topic>History</topic>
    <temporal>Civil War, 1861-1865</temporal>
    <topic>Prisoners and prisons</topic>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <geographic>Vicksburg (Miss.)</geographic>
    <topic>History</topic>
    <temporal>Civil War, 1861-1865</temporal>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="itoamc">
    <occupation>Army officers, Confederate</occupation>
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  <identifier type="lccn">mm 80003332</identifier>
  <accessCondition type="restrictionOnAccess">Open to research.</accessCondition>
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