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	Edmund Kirby Smith - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Edmund Kirby Smith (May 16, 1824 – March 28, 1893) was a career U.S. Army officer, an educator, and a general in the Confederate Army during the American Civil War, notable for his command of the Trans-Mississippi Department of the Confederacy after the fall of Vicksburg.
		In January of 1863, Smith was transferred to command the Trans-Mississippi Department (primarily Arkansas, Western Louisiana, and Texas) and he would remain west of the Mississippi River for the balance of the war.
		Following the Union capture of the remaining strongholds at Vicksburg and Port Hudson and the closing of the Mississippi, he was virtually cut off from the Confederate capital at Richmond and was confronted with the command of a virtually independent area of the Confederacy, with all of its inherent administrative problems.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Edmund_Kirby_Smith (827 words)

	TN Encyclopedia: EDMUND KIRBY SMITH
		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 in 1845, saw action in the Mexican War, served on the frontier, and taught mathematics at West Point before the Civil War.
		Moreover, Smith cast doubt upon the dependability and loyalty of East Tennessee troops raised for Confederate service, suggesting that these men be transferred to the Deep South, where they could be molded into good soldiers away from the pernicious influences of local Unionist leaders.
	tennesseeencyclopedia.net /imagegallery.php?EntryID=S048 (424 words)

	Edmund Kirby Smith (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		West Pointer Gen. 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.
		As the ranking Confederate officer west of the Mississippi, Kirby Smith had many responsibilities, especially once he was cut off from the rest of the Confederacy when the Mississippi River became controlled by the Union.
		Kirby Smith fled to Mexico and Cuba, but returned to the United States to become president of a telegraph company, then president of the Western Military Academy in Nashville, TN.
	civilwar.bluegrass.net /OfficersAndEnlistedMen/edmundkirbysmith.html (359 words)

	Printable Version on Encyclopedia.com
		SMITH, EDMUND KIRBY [Smith, Edmund Kirby] or Edmund Kirby-Smith, 1824-93, American soldier, Confederate general in the Civil War, b.
		Smith was the last Confederate general to surrender (May 26, 1865).
		After the war he was chancellor of the Univ. of Nashville from 1870 to 1875 and professor at the Univ. of the South, Sewanee, Tenn., from 1875 to 1893.
	www.encyclopedia.com /printable.aspx?id=1E1:smith-ed (176 words)

	Edmund Kirby Smith
		Edmund Kirby Smith was born in St Augustine, Florida, on 16th May, 1824.
		Kirby Smith was briefly taken out of service to the Confederacy after receiving a bullet in the chest at the 1st Battle of Manassas.
		Smith then attempted to send troops east of the Mississippi River, but this proved to be fruitless because of the Union naval control of the river.
	www.knowsouthernhistory.net /Biographies/E_Kirby-Smith (599 words)

	Edmund Kirby Smith: bio and encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Edmund Kirby Smith (1824–1893) was a general in the Confederate Army Confederate States Army quick summary:
		The confederate states army (csa) was formed in february, 1861, to defend the confederate states of america, which had itself been formed that same year...
		(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.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/e/ed/edmund_kirby_smith.htm (1784 words)

	General Edmund Kirby Smith
		General Edmund Kirby Smith was born in St. Augustine, Florida on May 16, 1824.
		General Smith was promoted to Lieutenant General and given a Corps in General Bragg's Army of Tennessee, but only for a short time.
		Once Grant took Vicksburg, General Smith was cut of from the rest of the Confederacy.
	www.sonofthesouth.net /leefoundation/edmund-kirby-smith.htm (392 words)

	EDMUND KIRBY SMITH - LoveToKnow Article on EDMUND KIRBY SMITH (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		In command of the Confederate forces in the Cumberland Gap region Kirby Smith took part in General Bragg's invasion of Kentucky in the autumn of 1862, and inflicted upon the Federal forces a severe defeat at Richmond, Ky., on the 30th of August; and was present at the battles of Perryville and Murfreesboro (Stone River).
		Kirby Smith and his troops surrendered on the 26th of May 1865, being the last armed forces of the Confederate States to do so.
		After the war, he was from 1866 to 1868 president of the Atlantic and Pacific Telegraph company, from 1868 to 1876 president of the Western Military Academy, from 1870 to 1875 chancellor of the university of Nashville, and from 1875 to his death professor of mathematics at the university of the South, Sewanee, Tennessee.
	www.1911ency.org /S/SM/SMITH_EDMUND_KIRBY.htm (319 words)

	Civil War Battle History of The Canden Expedition in Arkansas
		Kirby Smith, meanwhile, had returned from Louisiana, now that there was no longer any serious threat from Banks' army which had met defeat at the Battles of Mansfield and Pleasent Hill.
		Smith ordered Brigadier General James F. Fagan to take 3,000 troops and cross the Ouachita River.They were to strike Federal targets along the Saline and Arkansas rivers and the roads in between from Little Rock to Camden.
		Kirby Smith had to - somehow, with the condition of the roads - hurry.
	www.civilwar.org /historyclassroom/hc_camdenexpeditionhist.htm (3883 words)

	General E. Kirby Smith (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Edmund Kirby (Seminole) Smith, United States and Confederate army officer, was born on May 16, 1824, at St. Augustine, Florida, the son of Joseph Lee and Frances (Kirby) Smith, both descendents of well-established New England families.
		His grandfather, Ephraim Kirby, served as an officer in George Washington's army in the American Revolution and was wounded thirteen times.
		Kirby Smith was almost the last Confederate general in the field, but in a hopelessly isolated situation, he finally surrendered to Gen. Edward R. Canby, on June 2, 1865.
	www.angelfire.com /tx/RandysTexas/page114.html (649 words)

	Battle of Perryville - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		It marked the end of the Kentucky Campaign of Confederate Generals Braxton Bragg and Edmund Kirby Smith and, like the campaign, was marked not only by fierce fighting and heroic achievement, but also by indecision, confusion, and futility on both sides:
		The news that Smith and Bragg were both in Kentucky suddenly struck Buell with the need to get his army between the Confederates and the Northern cities of Louisville and Cincinnati.
		Meanwhile, Bragg met Smith in Frankfort where Bragg believed the main body of the Union army was.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Battle_of_Perryville (2412 words)

	General Steele’s Campaign Runs Into Trouble in South Arkansas » The Arkansas News
		Kirby Smith, with three confederate divisions, had crossed into Arkansas on the day of the battle at Poison Spring.
		Kirby Smith was fooled, and, because of his lack of pontoons to cross the rain swollen Ouachita, was forced to wait a full day and a half before pursuing Steele, who was literally running for his life.
		Had Kirby Smith been patient and waited till all his troops were available for one massive assault, the Federal force would have been crushed.
	www.oldstatehouse.com /educational_programs/classroom/arkansas_news/detail.asp?id=685&issue_id=40&page=4 (1394 words)

	Penn State News
		Smith was commissioned to be the military leader of the Confederate Army in the Trans-Mississippi region in 1963, while Taylor was a key military figure in Louisiana who from that time on reported to Smith.
		Smith ordered Taylor to have his troops fall back to Shreveport, but as Taylor watched Union soldiers wreak havoc in his district, he saw an opportunity for a pre-emptive strike south of Shreveport in the town of Mansfield.
		Smith had Taylor arrested, but Taylor was eventually released on order of the Confederate Congress, which went on to promote Taylor and leave Smith to “stew in his own juices," according to the book.
	www.psu.edu /ur/2005/prushankin.html (802 words)

	Untitled Document
		In the summer of 1862, Confederate generals Braxton Bragg and Edmund Kirby Smith organized plans to invade Kentucky.
		Smith left Knoxville on August 14 and entered the state.
		By mid-September, Smith's soldiers had whipped a Federal force at Richmond and Bragg's troops had captured a Union garrison at Munfordville.
	www.centre.edu /web/library/sc/special/perryville/battle.htm (1148 words)

	Jacksonville Historical Society (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		A.H. Darnes and Kirby Smith were born at the same St. Augustine home and spent a portion of their lives working side by side.
		In 1855, Darnes left St. Augustine and headed to the western frontier to serve as valet to Edmund Kirby Smith, then a captain in the U.S. Army, according to Charles Tingley, Director for the St. Augustine Historical Society Research Library.
		In the sculpture, “Dr. Darnes is portrayed with his doctor’s bag greeting his former master and old friend Professor Edmund Kirby Smith of the University of the South in Sewanee, Tennessee, dressed in his academic gown.
	www.jaxhistory.com /journal.htm (423 words)

	Battery B, 4th U.S. Light Artillery - The Battle of Perryville
		Moving to recover eastern Tennessee and hoping to bring the border state of Kentucky into the Confederacy, GEN Braxton Bragg led his army (32,000+ men - soon to be known as the Army of Tennessee) north from Chattanooga in mid-August 1862.
		Operating with MG Edmund Kirby Smith's command in East Tennessee (18,000+ men), Bragg's twofold invasion of Kentucky scored an initial success at Richmond, TN (30 August) where Kirby Smith, marching swiftly from Knoxville, TN, overwhelmed a division of raw Federal recruits.
		Reinforced by Grant (two divisions from Rosecrans giving the Army of the Ohio 50,000+ men) and prodded by Washington (Buell was faced with removal), the Army of the Ohio finally advanced from Louisville to confront portions of Bragg's army concentrating in the vicinity of Perryville.
	www.batteryb.com /battles/perryville.html (786 words)

	Texas State Historical Association - The Handbook of Texas Online: Texas Day By Day - March 28, 1893
		His competent administration of the department, sometimes called "Kirby Smith's Confederacy," and successful defense of the region against Union general Nathaniel P. Banks's Red River campaign in 1864 were marred by his inability to cooperate amicably with his principal field commander, Gen. Richard Taylor.
		In February 1864 Smith was promoted to the rank of full general, and during this time he presided over the Marshall Conferences.
		Kirby Smith was almost the last Confederate general in the field, but in a hopelessly isolated situation he finally surrendered to Gen. Edward R. Canby in June 1865.
	www.tsha.utexas.edu /daybyday/03-28-004.html (247 words)

	Edmund Kirby Smith: biography and encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		When Texas seceded, Smith refused to surrender his command to the state forces under Benjamin McCulloch (Benjamin McCulloch: benjamin mcculloch was a soldier in the texas revolution, texas ranger, u.s....
		Joining the Confederacy, his assignments included: lieutenant colonel, Cavalry (spring 1861); chief of staff, Army of the Shenandoah (Army of the Shenandoah: the army of the shenandoah, first organized in 1861 and then disbanded, is best known...
		In the spring of 1864 he soundly defeated Nathanial P. Banks' Red River Campaign and then dispatched reinforcements northward to defeat Steele's cooperating column in Arkansas (Arkansas: A state in south central United States; one of the Confederate states during the American Civil War).
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /reference/edmund_kirby_smith (657 words)

	Historic Preservation of American Civil War Battlefields
		This house was the birthplace of Gen. Edmund Kirby Smith, the last Confederate general to surrender.
		His mother, Frances Kirby Smith lived in this house during the early part of the Union occupation of St. Augustine until she was exiled from the city for spying.
		The collection is open to the public for research and is comprised of files and books on Florida history, including the Civil War period and the Kirby Smith family.
	www.civilwar.org /TravelersInformation/TravelerDetail.asp?lngTravelersInformationID=554 (164 words)

	Kentucky Tourism - Cultural Heritage (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		In addition, Confederate Generals Braxton Bragg and Edmund Kirby Smith sought a way to defeat Union forces near Nashville commanded by General Don Carlos Buell.
		On July 31, Smith and Bragg decided that a two-pronged raid into Kentucky would pull Buell out of Tennessee and would allow the Southern armies to resupply and recruit.
		Although the Southerners whipped the Federal left, Bragg was forced to withdraw his outnumbered army from the state, ending his invasion and dashing the hopes of a Confederate Kentucky.
	www.kentuckytourism.com /cw1862.aspx (1809 words)

	Edmund Kirby Smith (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		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.
		He died on March 28, 1893, at Sewanee, the last surviving full general of either army.
	www.aoc.gov /cc/art/nsh/smith.cfm (242 words)

	Army of the Heartland (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Smith quickly convinced Bragg to march north and invade Kentucky.
		Though there was supposed to be a measure of cooperation among them, Bragg and Kirby Smith could neither one stand to take orders from the other, and the result was a terribly mismanaged campaign that ended with the Battle of Perryville on October 8, 1862.
		Some of his criticisms of Johnston are possibly a bit harsh, but he correctly characterizes the history of the army as one of inept commanders from Isham Harris to Edmund Kirby Smith.
	personal.tcu.edu /~SWOODWORTH/Connelly-Heartland.htm (876 words)

	ipedia.com: Edmund Kirby Smith Article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Edmund Kirby Smith was a general in the Confederate Army during the American Civil War, notable for his command of the western Confederacy after the fall of Vicksburg.
		Edmund Kirby Smith (1824-1893) was a general in the Confederate Army during the American Civil War, notable for his command of the western Confederacy after the fall of Vicksburg.
		Source: "Who Was Who In The Civil War" by Stewart Sifakis.
	www.ipedia.com /edmund_kirby_smith.html (665 words)

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