https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mississippi_River_campaigns_in_the_American_Civil_War
When early the Confederate States of America lost St. Louis, Missouri, in 1861, due to the intuitive guile and intrepidity of Gen. Nathaniel Lyon, who had twice outfoxed then outgunned secessionist Governor Claiborne Jackson, it lost also the Civil War, in effect. This is so even though New Madrid, Missouri, was site of the escarpment, Island #10, which had resisted into May 1862.
This landed loop in the Mississippi River was a narrow strip of land under Confederate control, until a siege of it & Union bombardment of New Madrid caused a severance of its only supply line to Tennessee, and its capitulation and surrender.
Military control of the Mississippi River, assured control of its trade and commerce, all along its feeder rivers systems, especially the Ohio River, and all cities along its banks.
This so-called "Trans-Mississippi Region," defined the westernmost communicable border of the South.
With its communications being shut down, river transportation, troop movements, and resupply options were disrupted, within the cities along it, from St. Louis to New Orleans. Asphyxiation set in.
It is not without significance that Ulysses S. Grant's campaign began in the west along the Mississippi and moved east only after having successfully secured the west from New Madrid/Island #10, Memphis; in 1863: Vicksburg, Port Hudson, to the Atlantic from the Mississippi.
The point here is that while the eastern theater gets well-earned attention, it is the western theater where that war was lost and won, from St. Louis, Missouri in 1861.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St._Louis_Arsenal
Tuesday, June 21, 2016
ST. LOUIS WHERE THE CIVIL WAR WAS "WON" IN 1861
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mississippi_River_campaigns_in_the_American_Civil_War
When early the Confederate States of America lost St. Louis, Missouri, in 1861, due to the intuitive guile and intrepidity of Gen. Nathaniel Lyon, who had twice outfoxed then outgunned secessionist Governor Claiborne Jackson, it lost also the Civil War, in effect. This is so even though New Madrid, Missouri, was site of the escarpment, Island #10, which had resisted into May 1862.
This landed loop in the Mississippi River was a narrow strip of land under Confederate control, until a siege of it & Union bombardment of New Madrid caused a severance of its only supply line to Tennessee, and its capitulation and surrender.
Military control of the Mississippi River, assured control of its trade and commerce, all along its feeder rivers systems, especially the Ohio River, and all cities along its banks.
This so-called "Trans-Mississippi Region," defined the westernmost communicable border of the South.
With its communications being shut down, river transportation, troop movements, and resupply options were disrupted, within the cities along it, from St. Louis to New Orleans. Asphyxiation set in.
It is not without significance that Ulysses S. Grant's campaign began in the west along the Mississippi and moved east only after having successfully secured the west from New Madrid/Island #10, Memphis; in 1863: Vicksburg, Port Hudson, to the Atlantic from the Mississippi.
The point here is that while the eastern theater gets well-earned attention, it is the western theater where that war was lost and won, from St. Louis, Missouri in 1861.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St._Louis_Arsenal