Edmund Kirby Smith - St. Augustine, Florida
Posted by: macleod1
N 29° 53.490 W 081° 18.695
17R E 469915 N 3306803
His Great Floridian plaque is Sequi-Kirby Smith House, 12 Aviles Street, St. Augustine.
Waymark Code: WM4K0C
Location: Florida, United States
Date Posted: 09/01/2008
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General Edmund Kirby Smith, born in 1824 in St. Augustine, graduated from West Point in 1845 and served in the army during the Mexican War. He resigned from the U. S. Army to join the Confederacy. He served under generals Joseph Johnston, Gustave Beauregard and Braxton Bragg and was instrumental in Confederate success at the First Battle of Bull Run in Virginia. In 1863, he was promoted to Lieutenant General commanding the Trans-Mississippi Department, the highest-ranking Confederate officer in the western campaign. On May 26, 1865, he surrendered his troops, the last major Confederate army to surrender. Following the war, Kirby Smith served as president of a telegraph company, then of the Western Military Academy in Nashville, and became a mathematics teacher at the University of the South in Sewanee, Tennessee. General Edmund Kirby Smith died in 1893, the last surviving full general of either army.
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