Pacific Coast Theater of the American Civil War | Wikipedia audio article
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Pacific Coast Theater of the American Civil War


00:01:19 1 Secession Crisis on the West Coast
00:03:17 2 Operations against secessionists and the Confederacy
00:03:29 2.1 Outbreak of the Civil War
00:03:38 2.1.1 Securing Southern California
00:07:34 2.1.2 Campaign of the California Column
00:08:26 2.2 Pacific Squadron Operations
00:09:05 2.2.1 Pacific Coastal Defenses
00:10:56 2.2.2 Naval Incidents
00:11:17 2.2.2.1 J. M. Chapman Plot
00:12:00 2.2.2.2 Conspiracy to seize iShubrick/i
00:13:00 2.2.2.3 Salvador Pirates
00:14:10 2.2.2.4 Confederate Commerce Raiding
00:14:56 3 Indian Wars in the Department of the Pacific
00:17:08 4 See also
00:17:52 5 Notes
00:18:00 6 External links



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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 theater was encompassed by the Department of the Pacific that included the states of California, Oregon, and Nevada, the territories of Washington, Utah, and later Idaho.The operations of Union volunteer troop detachments, primarily from California, some from Oregon, and a few companies from Washington Territory, were directed mostly against Indians in the theater. Union and Confederate regular forces did not meet directly within the Pacific Department except in New Mexico Territory. However, operations were directed against Confederate irregulars in California and strong garrisons were placed in Southern California and southern New Mexico Territory to control the region which had strong secessionist sympathies. 
Confederate States Navy warships operated in the Pacific Ocean, but the naval operations did not succeed in interrupting commerce to the Eastern United States. The last of these commerce raiders, CSS Shenandoah, fired the last shot of the War in the Bering Sea off the coast of Alaska. Attempts by the Confederacy to buy or seize ships for commerce raiding on the West Coast were thwarted by alert Union officials and the Pacific Squadron.