Theater of a Separate War : The Civil War West of the Mississippi River, 1861-1865 /

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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-Missi...

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Autor principal: Cutrer, Thomas W. (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, [2017]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Military campaigns.
HISTORY > United States > Civil War Period (1850-1877)
HISTORY > United States > State & Local > General.
West United States.
United States > Old Southwest.
United States.
États-Unis > Histoire > 1861-1865 (Guerre de Secession) > Campagnes et batailles.
États-Unis (Vieux Sud-Ouest) > Histoire > 1861-1865 (Guerre de Secession) > Campagnes et batailles.
États-Unis (Ouest) > Histoire > 1861-1865 (Guerre de Secession) > Campagnes et batailles.
United States > History > Civil War, 1861-1865 > Campaigns.
Southwest, Old > History > Civil War, 1861-1865 > Campaigns.
West (U.S.) > History > Civil War, 1861-1865 > Campaigns.
History.
Electronic books.
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  • Has it come so soon as this? Secession and Confederate statehood
  • I will gladly give my life for a victory: Kansas and Missouri, June-December 1861
  • The wolf is come: war in the Indian nation, 1861-1862
  • The only man in the army that was whipped: the Pea Ridge campaign, February 1862
  • Charge 'em! damn 'em, charge, charge, charge! The struggle for the Southwest, July 1861-July 1862
  • We are men and braves: Indian warfare in the Far West
  • No feeling of mercy or kindness: the Prairie Grove campaign, March 1862-January 1863
  • Hold out till help arrived or until all dead: the capture of Arkansas post, 9-11 January 1863
  • Texas must take her chances: coastal defense and the battle of Galveston, April 1861-January 1863
  • All New England men and of the best material: the federal occupation of south Louisiana, April 1862-April 1863
  • Cannot you do something to operate against them on your side of the river! Milliken's Bend and the campaign for Vicksburg, spring 1863
  • Courage and desperation rarely equaled: the rebel assault on Helena, 4 July 1863
  • Much unmerited loss and suffering: Quantrill's Lawrence raid and the war on the Missouri-Kansas border, 21 August 1863
  • Drive him routed from our soil: the Little Rock campaign, July-October 1863
  • More remarkable than Thermopylae: Texas coastal defense and the battle of Sabine Pass, January 1863-June 1865
  • Our troops should occupy and hold at least a portion of Texas: Banks's overland campaign, July-November 1863
  • The land of coyotes, tarantulas, fandangos, horn-toads, and jack-rabbits: Banks's Texas campaign, October 1863-August 1864
  • No nobler death: the Indian Territory, July 1863-February 1865
  • We must fight them and whip them: Banks's drive toward Shreveport, November 1863-April 1864
  • I am going to fight Banks if he has a million of men! the battles of Mansfield and Pleasant Hill, 8-9 April 1864
  • A brisk and brilliant six weeks' campaign: Steele's Camden expedition and Banks's retreat from Pleasant Hill, April and May 1864
  • Destroy property and recruit men: Price's Missouri raid, August-November 1864
  • Let come what will, we'll fight the Yankees alone: Confederate collapse in the Trans-Mississippi.

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