Talk:Mississippi River campaigns in the American Civil War

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[edit] Campaign?

There was no "Mississippi campaign," per se. Typically, campaigns involve coordinated movements and battles directed by a single command structure. The Union conquest of the Mississippi River consisted of a number of campaigns that progressed in two separate theaters (Western and Lower Seaboard, the articles that list the various campaigns) under a number of different commanders and departments. You should reconsider your article title to avoid the term 'campaign'. Hal Jespersen 00:26, 27 August 2006 (UTC)

Since I have heard no reply from the original author after a number of days, I have renamed the article so that it does not imply there was a single campaign. I also added "in the American Civil War" to match a number of other articles and to disambiguate from other historical things that happened on the Mississippi River (not the state of Mississippi necessarily). Hal Jespersen 00:37, 2 September 2006 (UTC)