Talk:Battle of Baton Rouge (1862)

Health of the respective armies
Some mention should be made of the health of both armies, particularly the Confederates. Apparently almost half of their original force was lost to the effects of "fever" (I do not know its nature). The Union army was also debilitated, but not to the same extent. PKKloeppel (talk) 03:20, 7 January 2011 (UTC)

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Van Dorn
During the summer [’62], Major General Earl Van Dorn, commander of Confederate forces east of the Mississippi…


 * Van Dorn’s own page says he was appointed commander of the Trans-Mississippi District [i.e. West of the river] in January ’62. He was then ordered over to the East bank to cope with Grant, but I never heard that he was appointed commander of Confederate forces east of the Mississippi -  if there ever was such an appointment. In theory, that would mean he would out-rank Lee and Bragg. Maybe it could have meant commander of the Eastern half of the Western theatre (equivalent of Buell in Tennessee). The dedicated page for Theophilus Holmes says ‘Holmes was then reassigned to commander of the Trans-Mississippi Department [not District]’, apparently some time in ’62, but doesn’t give a date. Do you have any relevant citations? Valetude (talk) 15:24, 1 September 2021 (UTC)