Indian Territory (Confederate)

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Was the part of the Indian Territory (modern-day Oklahoma) controlled by the Confederates during the American Civil War.

Establishment

May 1865: Battle of Palmito Ranch. Confederate victory. Last battle in Texas during final phases of the Civil War. Southernmost battle on land in Civil War.

Chronology

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1. American Civil War

Was a civil war in the United States of America between the central government (Unionists) and the secessionist Confederate States of America that occupied the southern States. The main cause of the war was the different economic system of the northern and southern states: the northern states were industrialized and had abolished slavery, whereas the southern states relied on slavery to run its plantation agriculture based economy. At the end of the war the Union occupied the southern states and slavery was abolished. .

1.1.Trans-Mississippi Theatre

Was the theatre of war west of the Mississippi River during the American Civil War.

June 1865: At Fort Towson in Choctaw lands, General Stand Watie officially became the last Confederate general to surrender on June 25, 1865.