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William Lewis Cabell - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Cabell led this brigade in over 20 engagements in the Trans-Mississippi Department including prominent roles at the Battle of Poison Spring and the Battle of Marks' Mill where he commanded two brigades under General James Fleming Fagan. He served as commander of the Trans-Mississippi Department of the United Confederate Veterans. Upon his arrival at Corinth, Mississippi, Cabell was given command of a Texas brigade with an Arkansas regiment attached. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/William_Lewis_Cabell   (717 words)

Edmund Kirby Smith - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia In January of 1863, Smith was transferred to command the Trans-Mississippi Department (primarily Arkansas, Western Louisiana, and Texas) and he would remain west of the Mississippi River for the balance of the war. Edmund Kirby Smith (May 16, 1824 – March 28, 1893) was a career U.S. Army officer, an educator, and a general in the Confederate Army during the American Civil War, notable for his command of the Trans-Mississippi Department of the Confederacy after the fall of Vicksburg. Following the Union capture of the remaining strongholds at Vicksburg and Port Hudson and the closing of the Mississippi, he was virtually cut off from the Confederate capital at Richmond and was confronted with the command of a virtually independent area of the Confederacy, with all of its inherent administrative problems. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Edmund_Kirby_Smith   (817 words)

Trans-Mississippi Department - Wikipedia Wähle „Trans-Mississippi Department suchen“ um nach Trans-Mississippi Department zu suchen. Ein Wörterbucheintrag zu Trans-Mississippi Department hat seinen Platz im Wiktionary (Wiktionary). de.wikipedia.org /wiki/Trans-Mississippi_Department   (141 words)

Civil War Battlefield Guide - -Military Strategy, Politics, and Economics The primary military objective of the Union invasion of northwestern Louisiana (March-May 1864) was the capture of Shreveport, headquarters of the Confederate Trans-Mississippi Department, and the consequent breakup of organized resistance in that theater of operations. CS General E. Kirby Smith, commander of the semiautonomous Trans-Mississippi Department, was responsible for meeting this formidable invasion by Banks, Porter, and Steele. As for Porter and his jolly tars, they looked forward to a new opportunity for lining their pockets with the proceeds from cotton seized as "prize of war." This was the web of causality that drew the Federals up the Red River in the spring of 1864. college.hmco.com /history/readerscomp/civwar/html/cw_008100_militarystra.htm   (1171 words)

18th & 28th Thomas' Louisiana: OR's of the War of the Rebellion Organization of the Army of the Trans-Mississippi Department, General E. Kirby Smith, C. Army, commanding, December 31, 1864. Organization of the troops in the Department of Mississippi and East Louisiana, commanded by Lieut. Organization of the troops in the Department of Mississippi and Eastern Louisiana, Lieut. www.geocities.com /Pentagon/Quarters/5361/28th_or_figures.html   (3624 words)

Daniel's Battery Artillery, Greens Cavalry Division, Sub - district of southwestern Louisianna, district of west Louisianna, Trans Mississippi Department October- december 1863. Artillery, District of West louisianna,, Trans Mississippi dept ; December 1863 - April 1864. Assignments : Artillery, Nelsons Division,2nd corps, army of the west; Trans Mississippi dept. September - October 1862. www.angelfire.com /tx3/RandysTexas/daniels.html   (229 words)

Flags Of The Confederacy Unlike the eastern theater, captured flags were seldom turned in to the U.S. War Department, and, accordingly the documentation of capture is often lost. As the intervals between Texas' secession, her integration into the Confederacy, and the adoption of the 1st national flag was barely over a month, very few flags conforming to the Texas state flag of 1839 were made for presentation. Instead, the communities that provided flags for the departing volunteers usually prepared variations of the Confederate 1st national flag in lieu of state flags. www.confederateflags.org /army/FOTCtmd.htm   (2731 words)

29TH TEXAS CAVALRY Cooper's Brigade, Steele's Cavalry Division, District of Arkansas, Trans-Mississippi Department (January-October 1863) Gano's Brigade, Maxey's Cavalry Division, District of Arkansas, Trans-Mississippi Department (April 1864) Gano's Brigade, Cooper's (Indian) Division, District of the Indian Territory, Trans-Mississippi Department (September 1864) gen.1starnet.com /civilwar/29cavbat.htm   (128 words)

Flags Of The Confederacy Return to Battle Flags in the Trans-Mississippi Department At present, however, it seems that the sewing circles of the Trans-Mississippi Confederacy had already transferred their efforts to preparing battle flags that followed the "Beauregard" pattern or were variants of it. The virtual severing of commerce between the eastern Confederacy and those Confederate political entities west of the Mississippi certainly must have effected flag production in the Trans-Mississippi as well, though there is ample evidence of importations continuing to flow into Texas from Havana after the fall of Vicksburg and Port Hudson. www.confederateflags.org /army/FOTCtm2nat.htm   (599 words)

Organization Of The Confederate Armies April 12, 1862-Extended To Embrace Department Of Norfolk And Department Of The Peninsula. July 25, 1863-Extended To Embrace Department Of East Tennessee And Renamed Department Of Tennessee. The departments, districts, armies, and corps frequently changed based upon command and governmental decisions, as well as loss of territory due to Federal capture or occupation. www.csawardept.com /history/armies   (4908 words)

THE LAST HOPE OF THE CONFEDERACY - Hidden Mysteries Books In the Trans-Mississippi Department itself, the whole of Missouri, nearly of Arkansas, and the most important part of Louisiana were in the hands of the Union forces. In the Trans-Mississippi Department, however, a large area comprising western Louisiana, parts of Arkansas, and the whole of Texas was still almost untouched by invasion. Did it originate with the hard-pressed Confederate authorities at Richmond or with the military commanders of the Trans-Mississippi Department? www.hiddenmysteries.com /item700/item762.html   (800 words)

Historical Text Archive: Articles: The Role of the Trans-Mississippi Region In October 1862 the War Department had ordered seven regiments from the Trans-Mississippi to the army in Virginia, but General Holmes, who commanded the department at that time, complained that he was in no position to offer aid, as he had no troops to spare and even fewer qualified commanders. Although Taylor was reassigned to the command of the Department of East Louisiana, Mississippi, and Alabama in August, their war of words continued to the end of the conflict, and beyond. Using the Mississippi River to divide the Confederate nation made little sense to him, and he pointed out the necessity of having commanders in the Western theater work toward a common goal with those in the Trans-Mississippi. www.historicaltextarchive.com /sections.php?op=viewarticle&artid=663   (6239 words)

...1.AAA First Mississippi Artillery Regiment - Colonel Jefferson L. Wofford The regiment was assigned to the Department of Mississippi and East Louisiana, and Companies A, C, D, E, G, I, and L were captured at Vicksburg. Soldiers from Mississippi served in the major armies of the Confederacy and shed their blood on fields of battle in the significant theaters of operations. Mississippi played a leading role in the war, both politically and militarily. www.angelfire.com /ok2/kristi/MSArtill.html   (1249 words)

Texas State Historical Association - The Handbook of Texas Online: Texas Day By Day - March 28, 1893 He entered the Confederate service in 1861 and rose to the rank of lieutenant general in October 1862, when he was given command of the Trans-Mississippi Department, including Texas. On this day in 1893, Edmund Kirby Smith, former commander of the Trans-Mississippi Department of the Confederacy, died in Sewanee, Tennessee. His competent administration of the department, sometimes called "Kirby Smith's Confederacy," and successful defense of the region against Union general Nathaniel P. Banks's Red River campaign in 1864 were marred by his inability to cooperate amicably with his principal field commander, Gen. Richard Taylor. www.tsha.utexas.edu /daybyday/03-28-004.html   (240 words)

Petition.htm That this Regiment was organized in the fall of 1861 to serve for the war and served the Trans Mississippi Department until the 11th day of January 1863, when with the forces under Brigadier General Churchill at Arkansas Post we were captured. In addition to this there are fifteen (15) officers and one hundred sixty-nine (169) men of this regiment in the Trans Mississippi Department, making an aggregate of five hundred and eighty-four (584). Three hundred and twelve (312) enlisted men present for duty, sixty-four (64) absent sick of wounds and disease in this Department, making a total of three hundred and seventy-six (376) enlisted men. members.aol.com /SMckay1234/Documents/Petition.htm   (1140 words)

15th*Texas*Confederate*Infantry*Regiment*" Assigned to Speight's Brigade, Sub-district of Southwestern Louisiana, District of Western Louisiana, Trans-Mississippi Department. Assigned to Randal's Brigade of McCulloch's Division, 2nd Corps, Army of the West, Trans-Mississippi Department. He explained that troops raised by his authority in the state are mostly armed, but those raised by authority of the War Department are insufficiently armed. www.cba.uh.edu /~parks/tex/irg0150.html   (1037 words)

REMINISCENCES OF THE CIVIL WAR The Confederates, however, had been successful in their efforts to hold some points on the Mississippi River, thus preventing its entire control by the Union army and the complete isolation of the Confederate forces in the Trans-Mississippi Department. The roaring guns on the opposite banks of the Mississippi proclaimed the opening of the river from the source to its mouth--news as depressing to the Confederates as it was inspiring to the Union armies. To the Southern heart and hope this final capture and complete control of the great waterway severing the Confederate territory and isolating the great storehouse beyond the Mississippi, while recognized as a great calamity, was perhaps less depressing and galling than the surrender at Vicksburg of Pemberton's splendid army of 35,000 men. www.the-firm-1.netfirms.com /hgh_a112.htm   (2385 words)

17th*Texas*Confederate*Infantry*Regiment*" The 17th is attached to the District of Arkansas, Trans-Mississippi Department. Attached to the District of West Louisiana, Trans Mississippi Department. Assigned to the Eastern District of Texas, Department of Texas. www.bauer.uh.edu /parks/tex/irg0170.html   (628 words)

wrigndx The regiment was assigned to Colonel Crawford’s Brigade of Brigadier-General Fagan’s Cavalry Division in Major-General Price’s cavalry corps of the Confederate Army of the Trans-Mississippi Department. Returning to southwestern Arkansas in November, 1864, it served in that area to the end of the war, and was included in the general surrender of Confederate forces in the Trans-Mississippi Department on May 26, 1865. Later that year, the regiment took part in Price’s Missouri Campaign in the Fall of 1864, and was engaged in the battles of Pilot Knob, Independence, and Marais des Cygnes. www.couchgenweb.com /civilwar/wrigndx.html   (304 words)

15th Texas Cavalry Rust's - Parson's Cavalry Brigade, Trans Mississippi District, Department #2. Sweets Brigade, Nelsons Division; District of Arkansas, Trans Mississippi Department. Consolidated with the 6th, 7th and 10th Infantry Regiments and the 17th,18th,24th and 25th Cavalry Regiments { Dismounted } and designated as the 1st Infantry Regiment Consolidated at Smithfield, North Carolina on 09 April 1865. www.angelfire.com /tx3/RandysTexas/15thcav.html   (196 words)

Hendershott Museum Consultants - Authentic Historical Artifacts Catalog Historically important and possibly unique Confederate 2nd National flag with a variant pattern that was used by Confederates primarily in the Trans-Mississippi Department. Unique Confederate Second National Flag Historically important and possibly unique Confederate Second National flag with a variant pattern that was used by Confederates primarily in the Trans-Mississippi Department. The flag is dated to between June and December of 1861 as Tennessee was the eleventh state to secede representing the eleven star configuration on the canton surrounding a hand painted Virginia State Seal. www.garyhendershott.com /productsearchlist.cfm?SearchText=flag   (716 words)

The Trans Mississippi Monthly Walker's Greyhounds were the backbone of Confederate military force in the Trans-Mississippi Department. While it is true that the division didn't see as much combat as some in the east, they faced distances and hardships unheard of on the other side of the Mississippi. Union troops would honor the division with the name we most often refer to today, "Walker's Greyhounds." This is in respect to the rapid, long distance, forced marches which put Walker's men anywhere in Arkansas or Lousiana where the blue suited hord threatened. www.hcnews.com /tmm/units.html   (1289 words)

Battery B, 4th U.S. Light Artillery - The Battle of Palmito Ranch Early in the war, the Trans-Mississippi Department learned to rely on Texas ports as an outlet for European cotton sales as well as for the import of essential supplies. Though most Confederate troops surrendered their arms within the month, the Trans-Mississippi Department which included Texas, Arkansas and the Indian Territory (now Oklahoma) remained defiant despite knowledge of Lee's action. Texas armies formally surrendered on May 26, 1865, followed by the entire Trans-Mississippi Department on June 2. www.batteryb.com /palmito_ranch.html   (987 words)

16th Texas Cavalry Scurry's- Waterhouse's Brigade, Walkers division, District of Arkansas,Trans Mississippi Department. 5.Flournoys Brigade, McCulloch's - Walkers Division, District of Arkansas, Trans Mississippi Department. Surrendered by General E.K. Smith, Commanding Trans Mississippi department, on 26 May 1865. www.angelfire.com /tx3/RandysTexas/16thcav.html   (138 words)

General Edmund Kirby Smith Commander After the Union gained control of the Mississippi River by capturing Vicksburg, the Trans-Mississippi Department was cut off from the remainder of the Confederacy. Next he was given command of the Trans-Mississippi Department. General Smith had to administer the area without input from the authorities in Richmond, Virginia. www.civilwarfamilyhistory.com /new_page_130.htm   (353 words)

History of Nebraska By Morton & Watkins An executive committee was chosen as follows: department of ways and means, Z. Lindsey; of publicity, Edward Rosewater; of promotion, Gilbert M. Hitchcock; of exhibits, E. Bruce; of concessions and privileges, A. Reed; of grounds and buildings, F. Kirkendall; of transportation, W. Babcock. Hitchcock resigned the office of manager of promotion, and that department was thereupon, consolidated with the department of publicity under the management of Edward Rosewater. James B. Haynes was superintendent of this department. www.rootsweb.com /~neresour/OLLibrary/MWHNE/mwhne674.htm   (1412 words)

Black Flag: Guerilla Warfare in the Trans-Mississippi Yet, it was in the Trans-Mississippi, the Confederate department which included the states of Louisiana, Arkansas, Texas, and Missouri, along with the Indian Territory which is now Oklahoma and the Arizona Territory which included what is now southern New Mexico, that guerrilla warfare played its most important role. The black flag, the historic symbol of no quarter, was flown on both sides of the Mississippi and shouts of "no prisoners" were heard from pro-Confederate townspeople in what is now Bluefield, West Virginia when Southern troops arrived to drive out the hated Yankee occupation forces in 1863. The clearest, the most refined, version of guerrilla warfare in American history, other than the Indian wars, can be found in the War Between the States--and, specifically, in the war west of the Mississippi. www.lascv.com /busbice.htm   (2891 words)

Southern Army - Trans-Mississippi Army On February 9th, the command was enlarged so as to embrace the whole Trans-Mississippi Department, which, on May 26, 1862, had been separated from the Western Department (Department No. 2). On July 4, 1863, while in command of the District of Arkansas, Trans-Mississippi Department, he led an unsuccessful attack on Helena. In September, 1864, he was sent to command the Department of Alabama, Mississippi and East Louisiana, and surrendered to Major-General Canby, May 4, 1865. www.civilwarhome.com /southarmytransmississippi.htm   (461 words)

17th Texas Infantry On February 9, 1863, the Division marches to Camp Wright and the 17th Texas Infantry is attached to the District of Arkansas, Trans-Mississippi Department. The regiment participated in the Red River Campaign and the Camden Expedition in March-May 1864.In May 1863-April 1864, the regiment is attached to the District of West Louisiana, Trans Mississippi Department. In January - February 1862, the 17th Texas Infantry was assigned to the Department of Texas. www.angelfire.com /tx/RandysTexas/page55.html   (425 words)

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