GENERAL KIRBY-SMITH, Annotated and Illustrated

This is the respected and definitive work on Gen. Edmund Kirby-Smith, CSA, upon which later biographers heavily relied--now made better with helpful annotations by an academic historian with the addition of over 30 illustrations. Smith was born to Connecticut parents who had settled in Florida. He received a military education at the United States Military Academy and embarked upon a career in the US army. He saw action in the Mexican War and served under Robert E. Lee on the plains of Texa...