which encompassed western states including Louisiana, Texas, Colorado, Arkansas, Missouri, and New Mexico Dividing the war into three theaters allows for more precise discussions of the Civil War ...

No Union victory in the Civil War ... on the map. But when it came to holding onto the South’s largest and most strategic city, New Orleans, the rebels were notably stingy. With Louisiana ...

Louisiana, and Fredericksburg, Virginia. There was scarcely a family in the South that did not lose a son or brother or father. As with any civil strife, the war was marked by excruciating ironies.