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This biography tells the story of Edmund Kirby-Smith, a Confederate general who played a key role in the American Civil War. From his early life as a military c

Excerpt from General Kirby-Smith IN april, 1865, when the news of the surrender of General Lee reached a small town in New Jersey, a boy of ten years, who parti

In A Crisis in Confederate Command, Jeffery S. Prushankin scrutinizes the antagonistic relationship between Confederate general Edmund Kirby Smith and his key s