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Confederate General Earl Van Dorn graduated from West Point in 1842. He ranked fifty second in a graduating class of fifty six. Van Dorn saw major actions in the Western Theater of the US Civil War.He led the Confederate forces in the Union victory of the Battle of Pea Ridge.

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