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Confederate Generals in the Trans-Mississippi, Vol 1

Author : Lawrence L. Hewitt
Publisher : Univ. of Tennessee Press
ISBN 13 : 1572339853
Total Pages : 329 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (723 download)

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Book Synopsis Confederate Generals in the Trans-Mississippi, Vol 1 by : Lawrence L. Hewitt

Download or read book Confederate Generals in the Trans-Mississippi, Vol 1 written by Lawrence L. Hewitt and published by Univ. of Tennessee Press. This book was released on 2013-04-30 with total page 329 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Until relatively recently, conventional wisdom held that the Trans-Mississippi Theater was a backwater of the American Civil War. Scholarship in recent decades has corrected this oversight, and a growing number of historians agree that the events west of the Mississippi River proved integral to the outcome of the war. Nevertheless, generals in the Trans-Mississippi have received little attention compared to their eastern counterparts, and many remain mere footnotes to Civil War history. This welcome volume features cutting-edge analyses of eight Southern generals in this most neglected theater—Thomas Hindman, Theophilus Holmes, Edmund Kirby Smith, Mosby Monroe Parsons, John Marmaduke, Thomas James Churchill, Thomas Green, and Joseph Orville Shelby—providing an enlightening new perspective on the Confederate high command. Although the Trans-Mississippi has long been considered a dumping ground for failed generals from other regions, the essays presented here demolish that myth, showing instead that, with a few notable exceptions, Confederate commanders west of the Mississippi were homegrown, not imported, and compared well with their more celebrated peers elsewhere. With its virtually nonexistent infrastructure, wildly unpredictable weather, and few opportunities for scavenging, the Trans-Mississippi proved a challenge for commanders on both sides of the conflict. As the contributors to this volume demonstrate, only the most creative minds could operate successfully in such an unforgiving environment. While some of these generals have been the subjects of larger studies, others, including Generals Holmes, Parsons, and Churchill, receive their first serious scholarly attention in these pages. Clearly demonstrating the independence of the Trans-Mississippi and the nuances of the military struggle there, while placing both the generals and the theater in the wider scope of the war, these eight essays offer valuable new insight into Confederate military leadership and the ever-vexing questions of how and why the South lost this most defining of American conflicts.

Confederate Generals in the Trans-Mississippi, Vol. 2

Author : Lawrence Lee Hewitt
Publisher : Univ. of Tennessee Press
ISBN 13 : 1621900894
Total Pages : 310 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (219 download)

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Download or read book Confederate Generals in the Trans-Mississippi, Vol. 2 written by Lawrence Lee Hewitt and published by Univ. of Tennessee Press. This book was released on 2015-05-29 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Generals in the Trans-Mississippi have received little attention compared to their eastern counterparts, and many remain mere footnotes to Civil War history. This welcome volume features cutting-edge analyses of eight Southern generals in this most neglected theater-Thomas Hindman, Theophilus Holmes, Edmund Kirby Smith, Mosby Monroe Parsons, John Marmaduke, Thomas James Churchill, Thomas Green, and Joseph Orville Shelby-providing an enlightening new perspective on the Confederate high command." From book jacket.

Confederate Generals in the Trans-Mississippi

Author : Arthur W. Bergeron
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 302 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (891 download)

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Download or read book Confederate Generals in the Trans-Mississippi written by Arthur W. Bergeron and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Confederate Tales of the War in the Trans-Mississippi: 1861

Author : Michael E. Banasik
Publisher : Press of the Camp Pope Bookshop
ISBN 13 : 1929919220
Total Pages : 234 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (299 download)

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Download or read book Confederate Tales of the War in the Trans-Mississippi: 1861 written by Michael E. Banasik and published by Press of the Camp Pope Bookshop. This book was released on 2010 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Comprises an extensive group of reminiscences published by the St. Louis Missouri Republican between 1885 and 1887"--v. 1, p. xi.

Theater of a Separate War

Author : Thomas W. Cutrer
Publisher : UNC Press Books
ISBN 13 : 1469666286
Total Pages : 609 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (696 download)

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Download or read book Theater of a Separate War written by Thomas W. Cutrer and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2023-04-04 with total page 609 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

The Confederate Military Forces in the Trans-Mississippi West, 1861-1865

Author : William Royston Geise
Publisher : Savas Beatie
ISBN 13 : 1954547439
Total Pages : 241 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (545 download)

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Download or read book The Confederate Military Forces in the Trans-Mississippi West, 1861-1865 written by William Royston Geise and published by Savas Beatie. This book was released on 2022-08-30 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: William Royston Geise was a Ph.D. candidate at the University of Texas at Austin in the early 1970s when he researched and wrote The Confederate Military Forces in the Trans-Mississippi West, 1861- 1865: A Study in Command in 1974. Although it remained unpublished, it was not wholly unknown. Deep-diving researchers were aware of Dr. Geise’s work and lamented the fact that it was not widely available to the general public. In many respects, studies of the Trans-Mississippi Theater are only now catching up with Geise. This intriguing book traces the evolution of Confederate command and how it affected the shifting strategic situation and general course of the war. Dr. Geise accomplishes his task by coming at the question in a unique fashion. Military field operations are discussed as needed, but his emphasis is on the functioning of headquarters and staff—the central nervous system of any military command. This was especially so for the Trans-Mississippi. After July 1863, the only viable Confederate agency west of the great river was the headquarters at Shreveport. That hub of activity became the sole location to which all isolated players, civilians and military alike, could look for immediate overall leadership and a sense of Confederate solidarity. By filling these needs, the Trans-Mississippi Department assumed a unique and vital role among Confederate military departments and provided a focus for continued Confederate resistance west of the Mississippi River. The author’s work mining primary archival sources and published firsthand accounts, coupled with a smooth and clear writing style, helps explain why this remote department (referred to as “Kirby Smithdom” after Gen. Kirby Smith) failed to function efficiently, and how and why the war unfolded there as it did. Trans-Mississippi Theater historian and Ph.D. candidate Michael J. Forsyth (Col., U.S. Army, Ret.) has resurrected Dr. Geise’s smoothly written and deeply researched manuscript from its undeserved obscurity. This edition, with its original annotations and Forsyth’s updated citations and observations, is bolstered with original maps, photographs, and images. Students of the war in general, and the Trans-Mississippi Theater in particular, will delight in its long overdue publication.

The Confederate Quartermaster in the Trans-Mississippi

Author : James Lynn Nichols
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 144 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book The Confederate Quartermaster in the Trans-Mississippi written by James Lynn Nichols and published by . This book was released on 1964 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Confederate Generals in the Western Theater: Classic essays on America's Civil War

Author : Lawrence L. Hewitt
Publisher : Univ. of Tennessee Press
ISBN 13 : 1572337001
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (723 download)

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Download or read book Confederate Generals in the Western Theater: Classic essays on America's Civil War written by Lawrence L. Hewitt and published by Univ. of Tennessee Press. This book was released on 2010 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Confederate Generals in the Western Theater ultimately comprise several volumes that promise a host of provocative new insights into not only the South's ill-fated campaigns in the West but also the eventual outcome of the larger conflict. --Book Jacket.

Confederate Generals in the Western Theater, Vol. 3

Author : Lawrence L. Hewitt
Publisher : Univ. of Tennessee Press
ISBN 13 : 1572337907
Total Pages : 337 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (723 download)

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Download or read book Confederate Generals in the Western Theater, Vol. 3 written by Lawrence L. Hewitt and published by Univ. of Tennessee Press. This book was released on 2011-05-30 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: @font-face { font-family: "Times New Roman";}p.MsoNormal, li.MsoNormal, div.MsoNormal { margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; line-height: 200%; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Times; }table.MsoNormalTable { font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Times New Roman"; }div.Section1 { page: Section1; } The American Civil War was won and lost on its western battlefields, but accounts of triumphant Union generals such as Grant and Sherman leave half of the story untold. In the third volume of Confederate Generals in the Western Theater, editors Lawrence Hewitt and Arthur Bergeron bring together ten more never-before-published essays filled with new, penetrating insights into the key question of why the Rebel high command in the West could not match the performance of Robert E. Lee in the East. Showcasing the work of such gifted historians as Wiley Sword, Timothy B. Smith, Rory T. Cornish, and M. Jane Johansson, this book is a compelling addition to an ongoing, collective portrait of generals who occasionally displayed brilliance but were more often handicapped by both geography and their own shortcomings. While the vast, varied terrain of the Western Theater slowed communications and troop transfers and led to the creation of too many military departments that hampered cooperation among commands, even more damaging were the personal qualities of many of the generals. All too frequently, incompetence, egotism, and insubordination were the rule rather than the exception. Some of these men were undone by alcoholism and womanizing, others by politics and nepotism. A few outlived their usefulness; others were killed before they could demonstrate their potential. Together, they destroyed what chance the Confederacy had of winning its independence. Whether adding fresh fuel to the debate over the respective roles of Albert Sidney Johnston and P. G. T. Beauregard at Shiloh or bringing to light such lesser known figures as Joseph Finegan and Hiram Bronson Granbury, this volume, like the ones preceding it, is an exemplary contribution to Civil War scholarship. Lawrence Lee Hewitt is professor of history emeritus at Southeastern Louisiana University. A recipient of SLU’s President’s Award for Excellence in Research and the Charles L. Dufour Award for “outstanding achievements in preserving the heritage of the American Civil War,” he is a former managing editor of North & South. His publications include Port Hudson: Confederate Bastion on the Mississippi. The late Arthur W. Bergeron Jr. was a reference historian with the United States Army Military History Institute and a past president of the Louisiana Historical Association. Among his earlier books were Confederate Mobile and A Thrilling Narrative: The Memoir of a Southern Unionist.

Kirby Smith's Confederacy

Author : Robert L. Kerby
Publisher : University Alabama Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 562 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Kirby Smith's Confederacy written by Robert L. Kerby and published by University Alabama Press. This book was released on 1991 with total page 562 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Offers a case study of a segment of American society that consumed itself by surrendering everything in pursuit of unattainable military victory With the surrender of Vicksburg in July 1863, the Confederacy's TransMississippi Department, which included Texas, Arkansas, Missouri, western Louisiana, and Indian Territory, was cut off from the remainder of the South. Robert Kerby's insightful volume, originally published in 1972, "has gone far toward filling one of the most conspicuous gaps in the literature on the Confederacy," according to The Journal of Southern History. Kerby investigates the many factors that led to the Department's disintegrating and offers a case study of a segment of American society that consumed itself by surrendering everything, including its principles and ideals, in pursuit of an unattainable military victory.

Confederate Generals in the Western Theater

Author : Lawrence Lee Hewitt
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781572337008
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (37 download)

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Download or read book Confederate Generals in the Western Theater written by Lawrence Lee Hewitt and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Civil War Arkansas, 1863

Author : Mark K. Christ
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN 13 : 0806184426
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (61 download)

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Download or read book Civil War Arkansas, 1863 written by Mark K. Christ and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 2012-11-09 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Arkansas River Valley is one of the most fertile regions in the South. During the Civil War, the river also served as a vital artery for moving troops and supplies. In 1863 the battle to wrest control of the valley was, in effect, a battle for the state itself. In spite of its importance, however, this campaign is often overshadowed by the siege of Vicksburg. Now Mark K. Christ offers the first detailed military assessment of parallel events in Arkansas, describing their consequences for both Union and Confederate powers. Christ analyzes the campaign from military and political perspectives to show how events in 1863 affected the war on a larger scale. His lively narrative incorporates eyewitness accounts to tell how new Union strategy in the Trans-Mississippi theater enabled the capture of Little Rock, taking the state out of Confederate control for the rest of the war. He draws on rarely used primary sources to describe key engagements at the tactical level—particularly the battles at Arkansas Post, Helena, and Pine Bluff, which cumulatively marked a major turning point in the Trans-Mississippi. In addition to soldiers’ letters and diaries, Christ weaves civilian voices into the story—especially those of women who had to deal with their altered fortunes—and so fleshes out the human dimensions of the struggle. Extensively researched and compellingly told, Christ’s account demonstrates the war’s impact on Arkansas and fills a void in Civil War studies.

Confederate Military History of Mississippi

Author : Charles E. Hooker
Publisher : Ebooksondisk.Com
ISBN 13 : 9781932157185
Total Pages : 204 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (571 download)

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Download or read book Confederate Military History of Mississippi written by Charles E. Hooker and published by Ebooksondisk.Com. This book was released on 2003-07-01 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mississippi joined South Carolina in rebellion when it voted to secede on January 9, 1861, making it the second state to leave the Union. The state provided numerous political and military leaders to the Confederacy, including President Jefferson Davis and Generals Earl Van Dorn, James Ronald Chalmers, Wirt Adams, Robert Lowery, S. G. French, and Benjamin Grubb Humphreys among others. Forty-nine infantry regiments, seven cavalry regiments, and twenty batteries of artillery saw service in all theaters of the war. Its geography, especially Vicksburg and Port Gibson, helped maintain contact with the Confederate Trans-Mississippi and prevented the Union from controlling the length of the Mississippi River until the middle of 1863. Several major battles and campaigns were fought in Mississippi, including Corinth, Iuka, Tupelo, Port Gibson, Champion Hill, and Vicksburg. The author, Charles E. Hooker, began the war as a lieutenant in the artillery and rose to the rank of Colonel. Individual chapters cover the state's secession and organization of troops; early duty outside the state, primarily at Pensacola and First Manassas; battles in Kentucky, Tennessee, and Missouri; the blockade of the Mississippi River; the battles of Iuka, Chickasaw Bluffs, and Van Dorn's operations; the Vicksburg siege; the battles of Knoxville, Chickamauga, Gettysburg, and Missionary Ridge; the Meridian Expedition, the destruction of Meridian, and the Battle of Tishomingo Creek; and the surrender of Mississippi troops.

The Encyclopedia of Confederate Generals

Author : Samuel W. Mitcham
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1684512794
Total Pages : 967 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (845 download)

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Download or read book The Encyclopedia of Confederate Generals written by Samuel W. Mitcham and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2022-05-24 with total page 967 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A renown military historian and frequent television commenter brings to life the generalship of the South during the Civil War in sparkling, information-filled vignettes. For both the Civil War completist and the general reader! Anyone acquainted with the American Civil War will readily recognize the names of the Confederacy’s most prominent generals. Robert E. Lee. Stonewall Jackson. James Longstreet. These men have long been lionized as fearless commanders and genius tacticians. Yet few have heard of the hundreds of generals who led under and alongside them. Men whose battlefield resolve spurred the Confederacy through four years of the bloodiest combat Americans have ever faced. In The Encyclopedia of Confederate Generals, veteran Civil War historian, Samuel W. Mitcham, documents the lives of every Confederate general from birth to death, highlighting their unique contributions to the battlefield and bringing their personal triumphs and tragedies to life. Packed with photos and historical briefings, The Encyclopedia of Confederate Generals belongs on the shelf of every Civil War historian, and preserves in words the legacies once carved in stone.

The Confederate Official Reports of the Battle of Elkhorn Tavern

Author : H. L. Hanna
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN 13 : 1453856137
Total Pages : 110 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (538 download)

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Download or read book The Confederate Official Reports of the Battle of Elkhorn Tavern written by H. L. Hanna and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2010 with total page 110 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Battle of Elkhorn tavern has been called the "Battle that saved Missouri for the Union", I prefer to know it as the "Battle that doomed Missouri to the Union". In these pages I have culled the reports made by the Confederate commanders that were collected by the U.S. War Department from the records captured after the fall of Richmond in 1865. These records were published in the massive 128 volume The War of the Rebellion: A Compilation of the Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies. These reports are excerpted from Series 1, Volume VIII, pages 281-330. A map and list of units composing General Van Dorn's Trans-Mississippi Army and enumeration of losses from Volume 1 of Battles and Leaders of the Civil War have also been attached. I have also added short biographical footnotes of some of the lesser known commanders, as well as photographs of many of the writers. These first hand accounts, most written within a few weeks of the Battle, offer a first hand look at not only the actions of the participants on the days of the Battle, but also at their after action thoughts on the Battle, and sometimes their own justifications and excuses for decisions made in the literal heat of combat.

Confederate Military History

Author : Clement Anselm Evans
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 526 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Confederate Military History written by Clement Anselm Evans and published by . This book was released on 1899 with total page 526 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

War of the Rebellion: A Compilation of the Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies. [Trans-Mississippi Theater/Red River Campaign May-June 1864 ; Series 1, Vol. 34, Chapter 46, Part 4].

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Author : United States. Congress. House
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 807 pages
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Download or read book War of the Rebellion: A Compilation of the Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies. [Trans-Mississippi Theater/Red River Campaign May-June 1864 ; Series 1, Vol. 34, Chapter 46, Part 4]. written by United States. Congress. House and published by . This book was released on 1892 with total page 807 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: