Phrases were used to these daysgrant went from rags to riches and did it the hard way. He earned it. And he had to really fight and scrap, but he made it. A question toward tom here. Involves one of mississippis own guys, earl van dohrn, i hear he is quite the ladys man, and suspect, general . Easterly van dohrn is a fascinating individual. He is at the heart of what i do at the Civil War Interpretive Center because he is the army commander, army of west tennessee, his campaign is to retake all of west tennessee but he has to take the garrison at corinth first, and he has got a lot to live up to. Much is thought of him at the beginning of the war. He is the second ranking jenna mississippi, only to jefferson davis. He is placed in command of the transmississippi department, and he leads an army to defeat at pea ridge. He brought across the mississippi river, shortly after the battle of shiloh. He misses a few opportunities to hurt general halaks army group during the siege of corinth.