Talk:Pacific coast theater of the American Civil War

To do
Twisted86 05:44, 19 August 2006 (UTC)
 * Needs map
 * Needs text about the role of the West in the ACW (e.g. volunteers recruited to replace regulars sent to the East)

To do

 * Needs deletion completely.

This is a ridiculous article and a bogus theatre. The only battle in the campaign was against Indians and not between the Union or rebels. The battles in Arizona cannot in any way be considered part of this theatre, which is why I removed them from the category. They are part of the Trans-Mississippi theatre. Arizona is a landlocked state, the Pacific Ocean obviously does not border Arizona. Sure I know Arizona is by few considered a Pacific Coast state but here in Arizona, where I am sitting and typing now, we do not consider this desert part of the Pacific Coast. I will continue to delete the "Pacific Coast theatre" category from the Arizona civil war battle pages. It is completely ridiculous to say the Battle of Picacho Pass has anything to do with the Pacific, the same can be said of the other engagements in Arizona.--Az81964444 (talk) 05:14, 28 November 2009 (UTC)
 * The United States government (National Parks service) recognizes the battle as part of the Pacific campaign, that is why it was listed there.XavierGreen (talk) 01:46, 29 November 2009 (UTC)


 * I should note that this was a specific command as administered by the U.S. War Department. While it was certainly a backwater theater and didn't see much action other than moving troops around the western USA, it did have a role in the U.S. Civil War.  Deletion, and a call for deletion, are unfounded.  I sure hope this is never followed through even if you dismiss the notions of theaters as defined by the National Parks Service.  As to if Arizona was considered a part of this command, that can be debated.  Primarily it covered the north-western part of the USA mostly west of the Rocky Mountains, and included Nevada, Utah, California, Oregon, and "Washington Territory" which later became what is today Idaho, Montana, and of course Washington state.  Arizona and New Mexico were a sort of interesting and unique case in its own right, and certainly has some interesting history given the dynamics of what was happening at the time... arguably an independent theater in its own right.  --Robert Horning (talk) 02:54, 3 January 2010 (UTC)