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What civil war battle is considered the "High Water Mark" for the Confederacy in the western theater?

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Chickamauga, I would hope. Then I did some research. Unfortunately, sources also give Pima Villages/Glorietta Pass, not to mention Perryville and Lexington, Missouri. So all of these are my answers.

Mind, Shiloh left quite a ring around Grant's bathtub

Confederate High Tide in the West: Chickamauga and Chattanooga – October 8-11, 2014
If Gettysburg marked the Confederate high water mark in the east in July 1863, by September the smashing Southern victory at Chickamauga proved the cause was very much alive.
http://americashistoryllc.com/2013/...hickamauga-and-chattanooga-october-8-11-2014/

March 25, 1862 (Tuesday)
The Confederate “High Water Mark” is often seen as the invasion of the north during the 1863 Gettysburg Campaign. In the West (that is, the far west), however, the “High Water Mark” was the last week in March 1862. Sixty Rebels under Captain Sherod Hunter had captured Tucson, Arizona, already pro-secessionist, at the end of February. Since that time, they had moved even farther west to the Pima Villages, capturing 300,000 lbs. of flour and other supplies intended for Union troops, distributing them among the area natives... McCleave had been captured and the Rebels who captured him had also taken the Pima Villages
A small Confederate force defeated a detachment of the 1st California Cavalry under McCleave - however, the high water mark may have been the subsequent battle of Glorietta Pass at which
The Southwestern waters, shallow as they may have been, were about to recede for the Confederacy
http://civilwardailygazette.com/the-confederate-high-water-mark-in-the-southwest/


Fact #2: Perryville is considered the “High Water Mark” for the Confederacy in the West
Much as Gettysburg is to the Eastern Theater, the Battle of Perryville proved to be the most northerly major battle of the Civil War in the Western Theater.
http://www.civilwar.org/battlefield...story-articles/10-facts-about-perryville.html

Wednesday, September 21, 2011
The high tide of the Confederacy west of the Mississippi

On this day 150 years ago, the Confederacy west of the Mississippi was at its greatest extent. The day before, Col. Mulligan’s 3500 Union troops defending Lexington had surrendered. It had been a tough siege and the Union troops had held out valiantly, but lack of water and a clever idea by the Confederates to use hemp bales as a moving wall to threaten Union defenses had finally forced Mulligan to capitulate
http://civilwarhorror.blogspot.com/2011/09/high-tide-of-confederacy-west-of.html

Edit - OK. All the battles you named have been referred to, at some time or other by somebody or other, as the high tide of the Confederacy in the West, so all will be considered correct answers. Thanks for providing all the links.

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Mph. I think there are a number of possible claimants for this title. I'm going to go with Stones River/Murfreesboro, and it'll be interesting to see what will no doubt be a variety of responses.

Edit - Following the Battle of Perryville, which took place in Kentucky, Braxton Bragg withdrew to Murfreesboro, Tennessee, where the Battle of Stones River/Murfreesboro subsequently took place.

I think that of the two, Perryville has to be considered a higher water mark for the Confederacy.

Hoosier
 
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Vicksburg.

Edit - Although the Battle of Gettysburg, which took place the same time as the fall of Vicksburg, was considered the high water mark of the Confederacy in the East, I can't find any source naming Vicksburg a high water mark for the Confederacy in the West.

Hoosier
 
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