Trans-Mississippi Theater

Examples of Trans-Mississippi Theater in the following topics:

• The Battles: 1863–1865

  • The battles of the Civil War were fought between 1861 and 1865, with the most significant battles occurring in the western and eastern theaters.
  • The major engagements can be divided into the eastern theater, including Gettysburg and Antietam, and the western theater, including the Battles of Shiloh and Vicksburg.
  • Smaller theaters included the Trans-Mississippi theater, the Pacific coast theater, and the lower seaboard theater, which included Texas.
  • His idea was that a Union blockade of the main ports would weaken the Confederate economy and the capture of the Mississippi River would split the South.
  • Summarize the battles fought in the eastern, western, Trans-Mississippi, Pacific coast, and lower seaboard theaters during the Civil War and the generals that led them

• The West and the Civil War

  • The western theater of the U.S.
  • Civil War involved military operations in Alabama, Georgia, Florida, Mississippi, North Carolina, Tennessee, and areas of Louisiana east of the Mississippi River.
  • The areas west of the Mississippi, excluding states and territories bordered by the Pacific Ocean, were known as the "Trans-Mississippi Theater" of the war.
  • Starting in 1862 and continuing through the end of the war, the Union mounted several attempts to capture the trans-Mississippi regions of Texas and Louisiana.
  • Isolated from events in the East, the Civil War continued at a low level in the Trans-Mississippi theater for several months after Lee's surrender in April 1865.

• The Battle of Gettysburg

  • The two victories also cut off Arkansas, Louisiana, and Texas from the rest of the Confederacy, and provided an obstacle to communication with Confederate forces in the Trans-Mississippi Theater for the duration of the war, effectively cutting the Confederacy into two and making replenishment of supplies much more difficult.

• Union Victories in the Western Theater

  • Union victory in battles in the Western Theater were strategically important in defeating the Confederacy.
  • The Western Theater of the Civil War included the area east of the Mississippi River and west of the Appalachian Mountains.
  • General Albert Sidney Johnston commanded many Confederate forces in the Western Theater.
  • The theater's next phase was the Vicksburg Campaign .
  • Sherman sailed down the Mississippi River while Grant moved parallel to the Mississippi by railroad.

• Siege of Vicksburg

  • The Vicksburg Campaign was a series of maneuvers and battles in the western theater of the American Civil War directed against Vicksburg, Mississippi, a fortress city that dominated the last Confederate-controlled section of the Mississippi River.
  • While in their hands, it blocked Union navigation down the Mississippi.
  • On April 29 and April 30, 1863, Grant's army crossed the Mississippi and landed at Bruinsburg, Mississippi.
  • "Admiral Porter's Fleet Running the Rebel Blockade of the Mississippi at Vicksburg, April 16th 1863."
  • Lithograph of the Mississippi River Squadron running the Confederate blockade at Vicksburg on April 16, 1863.

• Stalemate in the Eastern Theater

  • Many of the Civil War's most important and bloodiest battles occurred in the eastern theater between Washington, D.C., and Richmond.
  • Operations in the interior of the Carolinas in 1865 are considered part of the western theater, while the other coastal areas along the Atlantic Ocean are included in the lower seaboard theater.
  • The theater was bound by the Appalachian Mountains and the Atlantic Ocean.
  • The Confederate government agreed to this strategy only reluctantly, because Jefferson Davis was concerned about the fate of Vicksburg, Mississippi, the river fortress being threatened by Ulysses S.
  • Identify the important battles fought and the states and generals involved in the eastern theater of the Civil War

• The Atlantic Theater

  • Proposed by General-in-Chief Winfield Scott , the plan emphasized the blockade of the Southern ports and called for an advance down the Mississippi River in order to split the South.
  • The Union victory at Vicksburg, Mississippi, in July of 1863 opened up the Mississippi River and effectively cut off the western Confederacy as a source of troops and supplies.
  • Describe the effects of the Union Blockade and the greater Anaconda Plan of the Atlantic Theater.

• The Lewis and Clark Expedition

  • President Jefferson had long been interested in the trans-Mississippi West.
  • Despite three centuries of European emigration, North America beyond the Mississippi River had remained largely untouched.
  • Jefferson was highly interested in surveying the flora, fauna, geology, and ethnography of the vast territory west of the Mississippi River.

• The Seven Years' War: 1754-1763

  • The conflict, the fourth such colonial war between the kingdoms of France and Great Britain, resulted in the British conquest of all of New France east of the Mississippi River, as well as Spanish Florida.
  • Using trading posts and forts, both the British and the French claimed the vast territory between the Appalachian Mountains and the Mississippi River, from the Great Lakes to the Gulf of Mexico, known as the Ohio Country.
  • The French claims resulted from La Salle's claiming the Mississippi River for France, whose drainage area includes the Ohio River Valley.
  • His leadership, and France's continued neglect of the North American theater, eventually turned the tide in favor of the British.

• The Battle of Shiloh

  • The Confederates were forced to retreat from the bloodiest battle in United States history up to that time, ending their hopes that they could block the Union advance into northern Mississippi.