Edmund Kirby Smith

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1824-05-16

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1893-03-28

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"Edmund Kirby Smith" in the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/N00003011, (accessed December 4, 2024).

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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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