BTW, had the western rebel forces had any $$$$$$ and/or supplies from the Richmond government, i think things would have been a FAR different story.
what the partisan rangers of the trans-mississippi west were able to do with NOTHING is almost beyond belief.
give Sterling Price, Pat Cleburne, John Bankhead & other western leaders a few hundred thousand dollars worth of weapons, supplies, ammunition and the war in the west could have been won.
our lads were NOT short on determination & guts;it was things they lacked.
furthermore,had President Davis followed the advice of Nate Forrest, you'd be writing me from a foreign country.
free dixie,sw