Why was the last battle of the civil war, battle of palmito ranch, fought in texas?

a. all texan troops refused to quit fighting.
b. grant had brought the majority of his troops to texas.
c. lee had refused to surrender and retreated to texas.
d. news of the war's end was slow to reach texas.

The native americans, spanish, french and americans all name places in our state. the word “arkansas” came from the quapaw indians, by way of early french explorers. at the time of the early french exploration, a tribe of indians, the quapaws, lived west of the mississippi and north of the arkansas river.