logistic cal problems hampered the movement and then he turned away. so curtis made the risky decision to sever his own supply line and to live off the southern countryside as he marched eastward and for two weeks in june, 1862, the army of the southwest operated independently of a base of supplies. this was it is first time in the civil war an army attempted such a maneuver, and it would not be repeated again until 11 months had passed when grant tried want same thing as he moves his army jackson so vicksburg. in arkansas the great black hole of american historiography. during the sif war wartime journalists celebrated events in the east, down-played events in the west, and they basically ignored events in the trans-mississippi. when the war ended, historians simply continued that mindset, that attitude, that approach. things are changing now these last 20 years. there's a really good book on pea ridge here. everybody should have a copy. this development is new, and it's going to take a few decades, i think, before we really begin to grasp how importa