Overview

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.

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9781469666211

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Cutrer's skillful narrative frequently succeeds as a traditional military history.--New Mexico Historical Review The best single volume on the Civil War west of the Mississippi River--The Annals of Iowa Well researched in addition to being well written.--Arkansas Historical Quarterly The scope of the work is large and takes into account events beyond the traditionally studied area encompassed in the trans-Mississippi Confederacy, including action in California, Utah, and even the Dakotas.--Missouri Historical Review

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Thomas W. Cutrer is professor emeritus of history at Arizona State University.

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