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RE: Finally watched The Good, the Bad and the Ugly, starring Eli Wallach...

Posted by Tom Brennan on January 2, 2008 at 09:35:04:
Rebels from Texas invaded the upper Rio Grande valley of New Mexico and were defeated after several fights, the most famous being the fight at Glorietta Pass.
But compared to the fighting east of the Mississippi it was small potatos and nothing took place on the scale of that in the movie, certainly no Vicksburg like trench warfare.
The biggest and most important battle west of the Mississippi was the battle of Pea Ridge in Arkansas, also known as Elkhorn Tavern. Certainly no desert.
There was also the moronic Red River Campaign of 1864 in which a good solid army corps of rugged Midwestern veterans of Vicksburg was paired with a sad-sack eastern corps and sent on a giant cotton stealing expedition up the Red under the ultimate idiot general of American history, Nathaniel Banks of Massachusetts. To add to Banks' woes he ran into Richard Taylor, son of Zachary and the only Rebel besides R. E. Lee capable of competent army command.
The whole sorry mess was one of the great fiascos of our history.