1861 Civil War newspaper w MAP of the US West ILLINOIS Missouri KENTUCKY Indiana

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1861 Civil War newspaper with a "Seat of War" MAP of ILLINOIS Missouri KENTUCKY & Indiana -
inv # 1R-204
SEE PHOTO----- COMPLETE, ORIGINAL Civil War NEWSPAPER, the
NY Tribune (Semi Weekly edition)
dated May 21, 1861.
This newspaper contains a  7" x 6" prominent inside page MAP titled: "A MAP OF THE SEAT OF WAR in the WEST." There is descriptive text as well on the
Civil War battles going on in Missouri, Kentucky, Illinois, and Indiana at this early point of the Civil War
.
The Western Theater of the American Civil War encompassed major military operations in the states of Alabama, Georgia, Florida, Mississippi, North Carolina, Kentucky, South Carolina and Tennessee, as well as Louisiana east of the Mississippi River. (Operations on the coasts of the states, except for Mobile Bay, are considered part of the Lower Seaboard Theater.)
The Western Theater served as an avenue of military operations by Union armies directly into the agricultural heartland of the South via the major rivers of the region (the Mississippi, the Tennessee, and the Cumberland). The Confederacy was forced to defend an enormous area with limited resources. Union operations began with securing Kentucky in Union hands in September 1861. Maj. Gen. Ulysses S. Grant's Army of the Tennessee had early successes in Kentucky and western Tennessee in 1861–1862, marched towards and captured Vicksburg in 1862–63, and combined with the armies of the Cumberland and of the Ohio, which had been working their way through central Tennessee in 1862–63, to capture Chattanooga in 1863. Chattanooga served as the launching point for Maj. Gen. William T. Sherman, who was put in charge of the combined armies by Grant, which were grouped into the newly created Military Division of the Mississippi, following his elevation by Abraham Lincoln to General-in-Chief, to capture the Confederate rail hub of Atlanta and march to the Atlantic. Operations in theater concluded with the surrender of Southern forces to the Union army in North Carolina and Florida in May 1865 following General Robert E. Lee's surrender to Grant at Appomattox Court House.
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