Army of the Southwest

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Army of the Southwest
Active
Country United States of America
Branch United States Army
Engagements American Civil War

The Army of the Southwest was a Union Army that served in the Trans-Mississippi Theater during the American Civil War.

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Created on Christmas Day, 1861, the Army of the Southwest was composed of troops from the Department of Missouri. The principal commander of the army was Brigadier General Samuel R. Curtis, but several other officers commanded the army for brief periods of time for the rest of the war. Curtis led the army into its greatest engagement of the war at the Battle of Pea Ridge. After capturing Helena, Arkansas, later that year the army ceased to be of great significance for the rest of the war; its units slowly being transferred to other armies in the Western Theater and Trans-Mississippi.

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