User:Mojoworker/Campaigns

NENAN vs. WP:ANOEP Templates for discussion/Log/2019 March 25

Discussion of one battle (and no battle campaign):

Template talk:Campaignbox Expedition to Lake Village

TfD

Template talk:Campaignbox Occupation of Indian Territory North of the Arkansas River

Template:Campaignbox Morgan's Raid in Kentucky, Indiana, and Ohio/sandbox

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Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Military history/American Civil War task force/Archive 6

"Over seven years ago (in 2003) a decision was made to represent the ACW campaigns described in http://www.nps.gov/history/hps/abpp/battles/bycampgn.htm with campaignboxes, regardless of the number of battles in each campaign. Each battle looks the same now because the infobox is followed by a campaignbox. About four years ago some of the one-battle campaigns were rolled into larger categories, although I question whether that helped anyone. My opinion is that I would rather be faced with campaignboxes that sometimes do not have a large number of links than with articles that have arbitrarily different formats. And I do not think editing dozens of articles to react to deleted templates is worth anyone's time. Hal Jespersen (talk) 5:51 pm, 2 July 2010, Friday"

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This is a compilation of all the American Civil War Campaignbox templates. Roughly from Civil War Battle Summaries by Campaign. That link is now dead, but the same summaries are in the CWSAC Technical Volume II: Battle Summaries PDF

Update

New URL pattern: https://www.nps.gov/civilwar/search-battles-detail.htm?battleCode=AL002

From CWSAC Technical Volume II: Battle Summaries—Theater and Campaign List p. 199:

Theater: Dr. Dallas D. Irvine, the creator and major compiler-editor  of Military Operations of the Civil War: A  Guide-Index to the  Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies,  1861-1865  (Washington, DC; The Government Printing  Office,  1968-80), wrote that Robert N.  Scott,  the overall editor  of  The  War of the Rebellion: A  Compilation of the Official Records of the  Union and Confederate Armies  (Washington,  DC: The Government  Printing  Office,  1880-1901), arranged  Series I, of that publication,  "according to the campaigns  and  several theaters of operations ..." The Official Records editors recognized five theaters of operations, Main Eastern, Lower Seaboard, Main Western, Trans-Mississippi, and Pacific  Coast. Irvine, in the Guide-Index, modified  this arrangement  by removing the Gulf Approach  operations  from  the  Main Western Theater  and  combining them with tire Lower  Seaboard  Theater. The Commission study used  Irvine's  classification  system.

Campaign: Campaigns are subsets  of theaters. The campaigns in the  Commission  study  are  as they appear  in the  Official Records and  Guide-Index,  with  a few exceptions. Some campaigns that  Irvine had  placed  in  the  Lower  Seaboard  and  Gulf Approach  were transferred  to the Western Theater. In these campaigns, the troops involved were wholly or mostly from  Main Western Theater  commands  and were  operating  basically out  of that  theater. In addition, the  Official Records and Guide-Index  did not  specifically  include  all of the battles identified  in  the Commission  study  in a campaign, listing these battles instead  as  singular events. In order to provide  a framework  in which to  evaluate  these battles, the Commission  added  some campaigns, using  analysis  from  secondary  sources. Campaigns that  span two years, such  as the Petersburg  Campaign,  are listed under both  years and the corresponding battles listed  under  the appropriate  year. Name of the Battlefield:  This includes the Commission  inventory number  for  each  battlefield,  for  example Gettysburg  (PA002). It is a unique number  which  includes the two-letter  postal code  for  the state and  a randomly assigned number  (roughly in order  of the completion  of survey  information  for  the site).

Main Eastern Theater


Main Western Theater (omitting Gulf Approach)


Trans-Mississippi Theater
Campaignbox Operations Against Galveston deleted per Templates for discussion/Log/2022 May 17



Lower Seaboard Theater
