Theater of a Separate War
The Civil War West of the Mississippi River, 1861–1865
- 608 pages
- English
- ePUB (mobile friendly)
- Available on iOS & Android
About this book
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. 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 South's armies in the far West, Cutrer shows, even if the region's influence on the Confederacy's cause waned, its role persisted well beyond the fall of Richmond and Lee's surrender to Grant. In this masterful study, Cutrer offers a fresh perspective on an often overlooked aspect of Civil War history.
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Table of contents
- Cover Page
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- 1: Has It Come So Soon As This?
- 2: I Will Gladly Give My Life for a Victory
- 3: The Wolf Is Come
- 4: The Only Man in the Army That Was Whipped
- 5: Charge ’em! Damn ’em, Charge, Charge, Charge!
- 6: We Are Men and Braves
- 7: No Feeling of Mercy or Kindness
- 8: Hold Out Till Help Arrived or Until All Dead
- 9: Texas Must Take Her Chances
- 10: All New England Men and of the Best Material
- 11: Cannot You Do Something to Operate against Them on Your Side of the River!
- 12: Courage and Desperation Rarely Equaled
- 13: Much Unmerited Loss and Suffering
- 14: Drive Him Routed from Our Soil
- 15: More Remarkable than Thermopylae
- 16: Our Troops Should Occupy and Hold at Least a Portion of Texas
- 17: The Land of Coyotes, Tarantulas, Fandangos, Horn-Toads, and Jack-Rabbits
- 18: No Nobler Death
- 19: We Must Fight Them and Whip Them
- 20: I Am Going to Fight Banks If He Has a Million of Men!
- 21: A Brisk and Brilliant Six Weeks’ Campaign
- 22: Destroy Property and Recruit Men
- 23: Let Come What Will, We’ll Fight the Yankees Alone
- Conclusion
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index