The Civil War in the American West Author:Alvin M. Josephy Jr. The Civil War was fought not only in the East but also from the western fringes of the Mississippi Valley to the Pacific Ocean. This extraordinary book portrays that theatre, violent in its day, but until now virtually ignored. — Josephy shows a Confederate army penetrating as far west as Tucson and Santa Fe before being stopped by Union troops o... more »n a fast march from Colorado. He recounts the bloody fighting on the ridges and prairies of the border states of Arkansas, Missouri and Kansas, and in the Indian Territory, where a Cherokee guerrilla leader was the last Confederate general to surrender -- two months after Appomattox.« less