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The War in the West Main Ideas 1. Union strategy in the West centered on the control of the Mississippi River. 2. Confederate and Union troops struggled for dominance in the Far West. Big Idea Fighting in the Civil War spread to the western United States Union Strategy in the West Western campaign focused on taking control of the Mississippi River. Ulysses S. Grant commanded Union troops in the western campaigns. Battle of Shiloh (April 1862) – In April 1862, a Union army led by General Ulysses S. Grant was surprised by a Confederate army led by General Albert Sydney Johnston near the Tennessee – Mississippi border. Although Grant’s army was hit hard, reinforcements arrived and the Confederates were defeated. Casualties were high on both sides. The Fall of New Orleans - U.S. Navy moved upriver to meet Grant, who was moving down the Mississippi. First obstacle was the port of New Orleans— largest Confederate city and gateway to the Mississippi. A fleet under Admiral David Farragut captured New Orleans in April 1862. He then took Baton Rouge, Louisiana, and Natchez, Mississippi. The Siege of Vicksburg – the Union army’s six week blockade of Vicksburg that led the city to surrender during the Civil War. This campaign involved naval action, and land battles. Farragut ordered surrender of strategic Vicksburg, Mississippi, in May 1863. Located on 200-foot-high cliffs above the Mississippi made invasion nearly impossible. Grant decided to starve the city into surrender; began Siege of Vicksburg in mid-May. Facing starvation, city surrendered on July 4, 1863. Struggles for the Far West Early on in the war, the Union halted attempts by Confederate armies to control lands west of the Mississippi in Colorado and Arizona in 1861. • Confederates failed to take border state of Missouri, losing Battle of Pea Ridge in 1862. – Cherokee Native Americans aided the Confederates, hoping that they would give them greater freedom. • Pro-Confederate forces remained active in region throughout the war, forcing Union commanders to keep troops in area.