General Edmund Kirby Smith, CSA by Joseph Howard Parks - HC 1st 1954 - Civil War

Description

This book was published by the Louisiana State University Press in 1954, there are no addition printings listed making this a 1st Printing.  This hardcover is 8-½” high by 5-¾” wide, it has xi + 537 pages, there is a frontis + 4 plates, a bibliography and an index.
This book is in Good condition, it is an Ex-Library copy with all the usual library markings, but is a nice, little used copy.  No Dust Jacket.
Here is the first critical biography of the Confederate general who commanded the largest theater of the Civil War, the Trans-Mississippi Department, and who held the same important command post longer than any other officer on either side. Edmund Kirby Smith, one of only seven full generals commanding Confederate armies in the field, exercised civil as well as Military authority in the isolated Trans-Mississippi area to such an extent that this part of the Confederacy came to be known as Kirbysmithdom.