Book contents
- The Cambridge History of the American Civil War
- The Cambridge History of the American Civil War
- The Cambridge History of the American Civil War
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Maps
- Contributors to Volume I
- Acknowledgments
- Note on the Text
- 1 Introduction: The Cambridge History of the American Civil War
- Part I Major Battles and Campaigns
- Part II Places
- 20 War on the Rivers
- 21 War on the Waters
- 22 The Blockade
- 23 The Border War
- 24 War in the Deep South
- 25 War in Appalachia
- 26 War in Arkansas, Louisiana, and Texas
- 27 War in the West
- 28 War in Indian Country
- Index
- References
26 - War in Arkansas, Louisiana, and Texas
from Part II - Places
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 11 October 2019
- The Cambridge History of the American Civil War
- The Cambridge History of the American Civil War
- The Cambridge History of the American Civil War
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Maps
- Contributors to Volume I
- Acknowledgments
- Note on the Text
- 1 Introduction: The Cambridge History of the American Civil War
- Part I Major Battles and Campaigns
- Part II Places
- 20 War on the Rivers
- 21 War on the Waters
- 22 The Blockade
- 23 The Border War
- 24 War in the Deep South
- 25 War in Appalachia
- 26 War in Arkansas, Louisiana, and Texas
- 27 War in the West
- 28 War in Indian Country
- Index
- References
Summary
Among the voluminous writing on the American Civil War, the role of the trans-Mississippi theater continues to be misunderstood by many scholars. Usually dismissed as distant and minor, the importance of Arkansas, Louisiana, and Texas to the overall history of the war has been relegated to the status of sidelight or interesting footnote. Instead, historians need to appreciate the war experience of a region of the Confederacy that contained 1.7 million people, the largest city in the South, and key natural resources. Of all of the states west of the Mississippi, the military campaigns, foreign policy, and national politics playing out in Texas, Arkansas, and Louisiana had a significant impact in the history of the war and in the national trajectory that followed.
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- The Cambridge History of the American Civil War , pp. 535 - 553Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2019