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This map depicting forts and navigation routes on the west coast was commissioned in 1858 by then U.S. Secretary of War and future C.S. President Jefferson Davis. The Pacific coast theater of the American Civil War consists of major military operations in the United States on the Pacific Ocean and in the states and Territories west of the Continental Divide.
The Golden State in the Civil War: Thomas Starr King, the Republican Party, and the Birth of Modern California (Cambridge UP, 2013). Richards, Leonard L. The California Gold Rush and the Coming of the Civil War (2008). Strobridge, William F. (1994). Regulars in the Redwoods, The U.S. Army in Northern California, 1852–1861. Arthur Clark Company.
California in the American Civil War — the 1860s people, places, & topics associated with California state in the Pacific Coast Theater of the American Civil War The main article for this category is California in the American Civil War .
The fort was completed just before the American Civil War by the United States Army, to defend San Francisco Bay against hostile warships. The fort is now protected as Fort Point National Historic Site, a United States National Historic Site administered by the National Park Service as a unit of the Golden Gate National Recreation Area. It is ...
Washington (state) in the American Civil War (2 C, 6 P) Pages in category "Pacific Coast Theater of the American Civil War" The following 26 pages are in this category, out of 26 total.
A California Historical Landmark, [11] Fort Bragg was founded in 1857 prior to the American Civil War as a military garrison rather than a fortification. [13] It was named after army officer Braxton Bragg, who at the time had served the U.S. in the Mexican–American War (and would later serve in the Confederate Army during the Civil War). The ...
American period: An enlargeable map of the United States as it has been since 1959. The following timeline traces the territorial evolution of California , the thirty-first state admitted to the United States of America , including the process of removing Indigenous Peoples from their native lands, or restricting them to reservations .
The 1562 map of the Americas, created by Spanish cartographer Diego Gutiérrez, which applied the name California for the first time.. California was the name given to a mythical island populated only by beautiful Amazon warriors, as depicted in Greek myths, using gold tools and weapons in the popular early 16th-century romance novel Las Sergas de Esplandián (The Adventures of Esplandián) by ...