1-344-878 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

Earl van Dorn, Confederate major-general, 1862-1867. Van Dorn (1820-1863) was shot and killed at his headquarters on 7 May 1863 by Dr George Peters, a jealous husband who claimed that the general was having an affair with his wife. An engraving from volume III of The War with the South : a History of the Late Rebellion, by Robert Tomes, Benjamin G Smith, New York, Virtue & Yorston, 3 Volumes, 1862-1867.