![By necessity, General Edmund Kirby Smith ruled the isolated Trans-Mississippi Department of the Confederacy as a semi-independent fiefdom.](https://warfarehistorynetwork.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/M-Sum20-Kirby-Smith-FEATURED-1-760x348.jpg)
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Edmund Kirby Smith: Rebel Lord of the Trans-Mississippi Theater
By David A. NorrisRecently detached from the Army of Tennessee, the Arkansas troops of Brig. Gen. Thomas J. Churchill’s division had not yet met their new commander when the division came under fire at Richmond, Kentucky, on August 30, 1862. Read more