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Edmund Kirby Smith - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Following the fall of Vicksburg and Port Hudson and the closing of the Mississippi, Confederate General E. Kirby Smith was confronted with the command of a virtually independent area of the Confederacy and with all of its inherent administrative problems.
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The Confederate general in the American Civil War, Edmund Kirby Smith, was the son of Joseph Lee Smith (1776-1846), an American lawyer and soldier, who served with credit in the War of 1812 and rose to the rank of colonel U.S.A. His elder brother, Ephraim Kirby Smith (1807-1847), also a soldier, fell at Molino del Rey;
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Edmund Kirby Smith, soldier and educator, was born on May 16, 1824, in St. Augustine, Florida, where his father was a lawyer and a judge. Graduating from the United States Military Academy in 1845, he served in the Mexican War under General Zachary Taylor and General Winfield Scott and was brevetted for gallantry.
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You Found It! Extensive resources on General Edmund Kirby Smith. ... General Edmund Kirby Smith was born in St. Augustine, Florida on May 16, 1824. He attended the U.S. Military Academy at West Point and graduated in 1845. He joined the Confederate Army in 1861, rising from the rank of Lieutenant Colonel to Major General...
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Richard Taylor and Edmund Kirby Smith were both proud, competent men that were sure they knew what was best. After the fall of Vicksburg, the Trans-Mississippi became Kirby Smithdom. ... This item: A Crisis In Confederate Command: Edmund Kirby Smith, Richard Taylor, And The Army Of The Trans-Mississippi by Jeffery...
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Edmund Kirby Smith, a native of St. Augustine, Florida, was one of the most despised Civil War commanders in East Tennessee. Smith graduated from West Point ...
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Edmund Kirby Smith "Commander West Of The Mississippi" May 16, 1824 - March 28, 189 ... Edmund Kirby Smith was briefly taken out of service to the Confederacy after receiving a bullet in the chest at the 1st Battle of Bull Run. Heralded as a hero and promoted to major general, Kirby Smith was not enthusiastic about...
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or Edmund Kirby-Smith, 1824–93, American soldier, Confederate general in the Civil War, b. St. Augustine, Fla. A West Point graduate, he was cited for gallantry in the Mexican War. ... See biographies by A. H. Noll (1907) and J. H. Parks (1954); R. L. Kerby, Kirby Smith's Confederacy (1972).
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