day samuel curtis has that right there, i need not even explain the action you can look at the map and tell us what happens from here, siegel will be in tactical command of the field and he will counterattack and drive his forces from the battle of p ridge, he is very lucky to get away in the retreat, he is actually needing to retreat south and he's on the northern side of the battlefield the union don't knows the roadmap in van dorn slips around he gets very lucky that kinda comes back with van dorn from time to time to say the least. van dorn writes richmond if they will leave him in command he will be willing to go on the offensive then he would have no problem doing that, the next step is the confederate government finding out that you cannot defend everywhere about thousand mile front of the confederacy and arkansas will be sacrificed, after the battle of p ridge albert sidney johnston consolidates all the forces including the confederate forces from west of the mississippi so van dorn and his command will march east and cross the river they will not make it in time for the battle

day samuel curtis has that right there, i need not even explain the action you can look at the map and tell us what happens from here, siegel will be in tactical command of the field and he will counterattack and drive his forces from the battle of p ridge, he is very lucky to get away in the retreat, he is actually needing to retreat south and he's on the northern side of the battlefield the union don't knows the roadmap in van dorn slips around he gets very lucky that kinda comes back with van dorn from time to time to say the least. van dorn writes richmond if they will leave him in command he will be willing to go on the offensive then he would have no problem doing that, the next step is the confederate government finding out that you cannot defend everywhere about thousand mile front of the confederacy and arkansas will be sacrificed, after the battle of p ridge albert sidney johnston consolidates all the forces including the confederate forces from west of the mississippi so van dorn and his command will march east and cross the river they will not make it in time for the battle