Edmund Kirby Smith
Birth | 16 MAY 1824 | |||
Educ. | 1845 | ![]() | ||
History | 8 MAY 1846 | Palo Alto Second Lt | ![]() | |
9 MAY 1846 | Resaca de la Palma | ![]() | ||
MAR 1847 | ![]() | Siege of Veracruz | ![]() | |
18 APR 1847 | ![]() | Cerro Gordo | ![]() | |
AUG 1847 | ![]() | Contreras | ![]() | |
20 AUG 1847 | ![]() | Churubusco Captain | ![]() | |
8 SEP 1847 | ![]() | Molino del Rey | ![]() | |
SEP 1847 | ![]() | Battle for Mexico City | ![]() | |
SEP 1847 | ![]() | Chapultepec | ![]() | |
Army | 1848-1849 | |||
1853-1854 | ![]() | |||
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1856 | ![]() | |||
1857-1858 | ![]() | |||
1859 | ![]() | |||
1859-1861 | ![]() | |||
1859 | ![]() | |||
Military | ![]() | CSA Army / Major General / US Civil War | ![]() | |
Org. | 1870-1875 | ![]() | Nashville, University of Nashville, President | ![]() |
Org. | 1875-1893 | ![]() | Sewanee, University of the South, Professor | ![]() |
Death | 28 MAR 1893 | |||
Grave | ![]() |
The last full General in the Confederate War, on either side, died at his home in Sewanee, Tenn, March 28, 1893. General Kirby Smith was a native of Florida, and graduated at West Point in 1845. He was a Major in the United States Army when he resigned to go with his own people in 1861. He was made a Confederate Brigadier in June, 1861, and a Major General in October of that year. In 1862 he was promoted to Lieutenant General, and in 1864 a full General. His achievements in the war are an interesting part of its history. President Davis is said to have told him, in assignment of the Trans-Mississippi Department, in 1863, that he gave him more authority than he dare put in writing.