Trans-Mississippi Department

Map of the CSA (inaccurately including border states claimed by the CSA but that voted not to secede and whose populations generally were pro-U.S.: Missouri and Kentucky); the Trans-Mississippi Department covered all land west of the Mississippi.
Battles fought in the Trans-Mississippi Department
Dr. Edmund Lewis Massie of the Trans-Mississippi Department

The Trans-Mississippi Department was a geographical subdivision of the Confederate States Army comprising Arkansas, Missouri, Texas, western Louisiana, Arizona Territory and the Indian Territory; i.e. all of the Confederacy west of the Mississippi River. It was the last military department to surrender to United States forces in 1865.


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