He kept us in hot water almost continually in the Trans-Mississippi department, and made us a world of trouble.
The surrender of the forces of the Trans-Mississippi on May 26, 1865, brought the war to a definite conclusion.
Perhaps, it is scarcely fair to intimate that the Trans-Mississippi Department was regarded as unimportant at this stage.
Even before the War ended, a great immigration started towards the mines and farms of the trans-Mississippi country.
Our own country has added to the philatelic "zoo" by placing a herd of cattle on one of the Trans-Mississippi issue.
