His area was the parts of Arkansas and Louisiana under Confederate control, Texas, and I suppose parts of the Indian Territory, now Oklahoma.

His area was called "Kirby Smith's Confederacy" or "Kirby Smithdom."

Kirby Smith beat off several Union invasions and did a little invading of his own by sending Sterling Price into Missouri in 1864. The truth of the matter was that the area west of the Mississippi controlled by Kirby Smith was not that important, and it didn't make sense for the Union to expend as much effort in the area as it did.

Kirby Smith surrendered his army, the last effective field force in the Confederacy, in May, 1865, about six weeks after Lee's surrender.

Foote was wounded in the Battle of Fort Donelson in 1862. He was promoted and on his way to take command of one of the Union's blockade squadrons when he died at age 56. His early death was a serious loss to the Union Navy.

The United States fought over two dozen Indian Wars before the Civil War, and Buford learned his trade fighting in several of those wars.

When the Civil War broke out, he was rapidly promoted and commanded a division of cavalry at the time of the Battle of Gettysburg.

He is credited with choosing the battlefield and holding the line for the Union on the first day. You all saw Sam Elliott in Gettysburg playing the Buford character.

The tactics that Buford used so successfully that day were learned by him on the frontier fighting the Indians.

Buford was probably the best cavalry general in the Union Army of the Potomac, but unfortunately, he died of disease a few months after Gettysburg.