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26 - War in Arkansas, Louisiana, and Texas

from Part II - Places

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 October 2019

By
Donald S. Frazier
Edited by
Aaron Sheehan-Dean
Aaron Sheehan-Dean
Affiliation:
Louisiana State University
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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 - 553
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2019

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