Edmund Kirby Smith

Birth Date

1824-05-16

Death Date

1893-03-28

Gender

Race Description

White

Entity Type

Person

General (C.S.A.). St. Augustine, Florida, native. Graduated from the United States Military Academy at West Point, New York, in 1845. Served in the U.S.-Mexican War. Mathematics instructor at the United States Military Academy from 1849 to 1852. Served in the United States military as a lieutenant, captain and major until 1860. Served as a lieutenant colonel, brigadier general, and major general in the C. S. A. army from 1861 to 1865.

"E. Kirby Smith," Encyclopedia Britannica_ https://www.britannica.com/biography/E-Kirby-Smith (accessed on July 25, 2019).
Joseph Howard Parks, General Edmund Kirby Smith, C.S.A. (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1954).

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