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Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 30. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), chapter 1.6 (search)
Last forlorn hope of the Confederacy.
[from the Sunny South , November 80, 1902.] By Wallace Putnam Reed.
When the tidings of Lee's surrender at Appomattox reached the Confederates in Texas, Arkansas and Louisiana, they swore that they would die in the last ditch rather than stack arms under the Stars and Stripes.
Kirby Smith was in command of the department, and under him were Generals Buckner and Magruder, to say nothing of that born soldier, General Joe Shelby, with his 1,000 Missouri rough riders, the very flower of the army.
Backing these generals were 50,000 trained soldiers, the finest fighting material in the world.
Their equipment was superb.
They had not been reduced to rags and starvation, like their comrades east of the Mississippi under Lee and Johnston.
They had not felt the federal blockade.
After Appomattox they were in splendid fighting condition and eager for the fray.
Perhaps the situation needs a word or two of explanation.
At that time the Fr
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 30. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), Index (search)