Civil War in the American West. Comprehensive history of the Civil War as it was fought from the western fringe of the Mississippi Valley to the Pacific Ocean. Includes battles, personalities, and issues involved.
Author: shows how in the early months of the war a Confederate army penetrated as far west as Tucson and Santa Fa before it was stopped by Union troops on fast March from Colorado. He makes clear the involvement of Native Americans in the war how volunteer groups charged with keeping the western trails open for the Union fought a monstrous war against the Plains Indians, makes vivid the months-long series of battles between Confederate and Union troops on the rivers and in the bayous of western Louisiana and long the coast of Texas."
448/Hardbound/Jacket with daguerreotype of fort/map/bibliography/index
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Marshall & Melanie White
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Nomenclature 4.0
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Other Documents
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Confederate Army, Union Army, Civil War in the West, Native Americans in the Civil War
