[STONEWALLS]

...thanks for posting this Mainepats fan....the trans -Mississippi campaigns are largely overlooked....most Americans think that the CW was mostly about the fighting in Virginia...it was much, much bigger than that...I know that from my family history....one of my g-grandfathers was in the 6th Texas cavalry, so we have stories from him about the terrible fighting the Army of the West engaged in.

[mainepatsfan]

the trans -Mississippi campaigns are largely overlooked

They were at the time as well although this particular fight got a large amount of attention nationwide due to the lack of relative action elsewhere during this period. This wasn't exactly the morale pick up the North was looking for in the aftermath of Bull Run.

[balch3]

I’m fascinated by the western battles. Missouri, Oklahoma and even further west in AZ and NM.

[ErnBatavia]

I'm still pissed off that during last year's driving trip, we were misdirected to what we read was the "Salem Cemetery Battlefield" during an overnight stay in Jackson, TN.....I'd taken along my metal detector in the hopes of such a find.

Turns out the directions were to the home (and nobody was there) of an association director, not the actual site....all we saw was a squashed snapping turkle in the road nearby.