Theater of a Separate War (eBook)

The Civil War West of the Mississippi River, 1861-1865

Thomas W. Cutrer (Autor)

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2017
608 Seiten
The University of North Carolina Press (Verlag)
978-1-4696-3157-8 (ISBN)

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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-Mississippi theater was site of major clashes from the wars 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 theaters distance from events in the East does not diminish its importance to the unfolding of the larger struggle.Theater of a Separate War details the battles between North and South in these far-flung regions, assessing the complex political and military strategies on both sides. While providing the definitive history of the rise and fall of the Souths armies in the far West, Cutrer shows, even if the regions influence on the Confederacys cause waned, its role persisted well beyond the fall of Richmond and Lees surrender to Grant. In this masterful study, Cutrer offers a fresh perspective on an often overlooked aspect of Civil War history.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 16.3.2017
• Reihe/Serie: Littlefield History of the Civil War Era
• Verlagsort: Chapel Hill
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Geschichte / Politik ► 20. Jahrhundert bis 1945
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918)
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Militärgeschichte
• Schlagworte: battle of Galveston • battle of Glorieta Pass • battle of Mansfield • battle of Milliken’s Bend • battle of Milliken’s Bend • battle of Pea Ridge • battle of Pleasant Hill • battle of Prairie Grove • battle of Sabine Pass • battle of Wilson’s Creek • battle of Wilson’s Creek • Civil War in Arkansas • Civil War in Indian Territory • Civil War in Louisiana • Civil War in Missouri • Civil War in New Mexico • Civil War in Texas • Civil War in the Trans-Mississippi • Edmund Kirby Smith • Edward R. S. Canby • Henry W. Halleck • John Charles Frémont • John Charles Frémont • John Schofield • Nathaniel P. Banks • Red River Campaign • Richard Taylor • Samuel R. Curtis • Stand Watie • Tom Green
• ISBN-10: 1-4696-3157-1 / 1469631571
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4696-3157-8 / 9781469631578