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Theater of a Separate War : The Civil War West of the Mississippi River, 1861-1865 /
"Though its most famous battles were waged in the East at Antietam, Gettysburg, and throughout Virginia, the Civil War was clearly a conflict that raged across a continent. From cotton-rich Texas and the fields of Kansas through Indian Territory and into the high desert of New Mexico, the trans...
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| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Chapel Hill :
The University of North Carolina Press,
[2017]
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Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction
- 1. Has it come so soon as this? Secession and Confederate statehood
- 2. I will gladly give my life for a victory: Kansas and Missouri, June-December 1861
- 3. The wolf is come: war in the Indian nation, 1861-1862
- 4. The only man in the army that was whipped: the Pea Ridge campaign, February 1862
- 5. Charge 'em! Damn 'em, charge, charge, charge! The struggle for the Southwest, July 1861-July 1862
- 6. We are men and braves: Indian warfare in the Far West
- 7. No feeling of mercy or kindness: the Prairie Grove campaign, March 1862-January 1863
- 8. Hold out till help arrived or until all dead: the capture of Arkansas post, 9-11 January 1863
- 9. Texas must take her chances: coastal defense and the battle of Galveston, April 1861-January 1863
- 10. All New England men and of the best material: the federal occupation of south Louisiana, April 1862-April 1863
- 11. Cannot you do something to operate against them on your side of the river! Milliken's Bend and the campaign for Vicksburg, spring 1863
- 12. Courage and desperation rarely equaled: the rebel assault on Helena, 4 July 1863
- 13. Much unmerited loss and suffering: Quantrill's Lawrence raid and the war on the Missouri-Kansas border, 21 August 1863
- 14. Drive him routed from our soil: the Little Rock campaign, July-October 1863
- 15. More remarkable than Thermopylae: Texas coastal defense and the battle of Sabine Pass, January 1863-June 1865
- 16. Our troops should occupy and hold at least a portion of Texas: Banks's overland campaign, July-November 1863
- 17. The land of coyotes, tarantulas, fandangos, horn-toads, and jack-rabbits: Banks's Texas campaign, October 1863-August 1864
- 18. No nobler death: the Indian Territory, July 1863-February 1865
- 19. We must fight them and whip them: Banks's drive toward Shreveport, November 1863-April 1864
- 20. I am going to fight Banks if he has a million of men! The battles of Mansfield and Pleasant Hill, 8-9 April 1864
- 21. A brisk and brilliant six weeks' campaign: Steele's Camden expedition and Banks's retreat from Pleasant Hill, April and May 1864
- 22. Destroy property and recruit men: Price's Missouri raid, August-November 1864
- 23. Let come what will, we'll fight the Yankees alone: Confederate collapse in the Trans-Mississippi
- Conclusion: a sort of Botany Bay
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index.