On February 9, 1863, the Confederate War Department extended the command of Lieutenant General Edmund Kirby Smith to embrace the Trans-Mississippi Department.
On February 9, 1863, the Confederate War Department extended the command of Lieutenant General Edmund Kirby Smith to embrace the Trans-Mississippi Department. [Wikimedia Commons]
SPECIAL ORDERS, No. 33
ADJT. AND INSPECTOR GENERAL’S OFFICE,
Richmond, February 9, 1863.
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XXVII. The command of Lieutenant General E. Kirby Smith is extended so as to embrace the Trans-Mississippi Department.
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By command of the Secretary of War:
JNO. WITHERS,
Assistant Adjutant-General.
