Edmund Kirby Smith

Edmund Kirby Smith (May 16, 1824 – March 28, 1893) was a United States Army officer and academic. He was a general for the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War. Near the end of the war, he commanded all the Confederate soldiers west of the Mississippi River. He surrendered his army (gave up the fight) on May 26, 1865 at New Orleans. This was weeks after Robert E. Lee had surrendered at Appomattox. Kirby Smith was from Saint Augustine, Florida.

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Edmund Kirby Smith's boyhood home at St. Augustine, Florida
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photo of Edmund Kirby Smith (1824-1893)
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A plaque marking Smith's former residence at Shreveport, Louisiana