Map of the CSA; the Trans-Mississippi Department covered all land west of the Mississippi.Battles fought in the Trans-Mississippi DepartmentDr. Edmund Lewis Massie of the Trans-Mississippi Department
The Trans-Mississippi Department was established on May 26, 1862, at Little Rock, Arkansas. It absorbed the previously established Trans-Mississippi District (Department Number Two) which had been organized on January 10, 1862, to include the Indian Territory, Missouri, Arkansas (except for the country east of St. Francis County, Arkansas, to Scott County), Missouri, and that part of Louisiana north of the Red river. The Trans-Mississippi Department had its headquarters at Shreveport, Louisiana, and Houston, Texas. It was responsible for the Confederate theater of operations west of the Mississippi. Its forces were sometimes referred to as "Army of the Southwest" and, as a result of being largely cut off from the Confederate government in Richmond late in the War, became popularly known as "Kirby-Smithdom".[1]
Commanding generalsedit
Brigadier-General Paul O. Hébert (May 26, 1862 – June 20, 1862)
Major-General John B. Magruder (assigned June 20, 1862, but did not accept)
General E. Kirby Smith (April 22, 1865 – May 26, 1865)
Referencesedit
^Jones, Terry (2002). Historical Dictionary of the Civil War. Lanham, Md.: Scarecrow Press. p. 785. ISBN9780810841123.
Further readingedit
Baker, T. Lindsay, ed. (2007). "Chapter 6: Collapse of the Confederacy". Confederate Guerrilla: The Civil War Memoir of Joseph M. Bailey. Civil War in the West. Fayetteville: The University of Arkansas Press. ISBN978-1-55728-838-7. OCLC 85018566. OL 8598848M.
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