Theater of a separate war : the Civil War west of the Mississippi River, 1861-1865 /

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Author / Creator:	Cutrer, Thomas W., author.
Imprint:	Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, [2017]
Description:	1 online resource
Language:	English
Series:	The Littlefield history of the Civil War era Littlefield history of the Civil War era.
Subject:	Military campaigns. West (U.S.) -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Campaigns. Southwest, Old -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Campaigns. United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Campaigns. United States. United States -- Old Southwest. West United States. History.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11676711

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ISBN:	9781469631578 1469631571 9781469631585 146963158X 9781469631561 1469631563
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index. Print version record.
Summary:	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-Mississippi theater was site of major clashes from the war's earliest days through the surrenders of Confederate generals Edmund Kirby Smith and Stand Waite in June 1865. In this comprehensive military history of the war west of the Mississippi River, Thomas W. Cutrer shows that the theater's distance from events in the East does not diminish its importance to the unfolding of the larger struggle.
Other form:	Print version: Cutrer, Thomas W. Theater of a separate war. Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, [2017] 9781469631561

Table of Contents:

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.

Theater of a separate war : the Civil War west of the Mississippi River, 1861-1865 /

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