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7 unusual facts about Edmund Kirby Smith


Bushrod Johnson

Johnson returned to teaching to become a professor and co-chancellor (1870) of the University of Nashville with former Confederate General Edmund Kirby Smith.

Carter L. Stevenson

In July, Stevenson's division helped pursue the Union forces into Kentucky, where he combined his forces in the Department of East Tennessee with Edmund Kirby Smith, serving under Smith during the return trip to the Confederate base at Murfreesboro, Tennessee.

Edmund Kirby Smith Hall

The building was named after the United States Army officer of the same name.

Henry Heth

He was promoted to brigadier general on January 6, 1862, and sent west to the Department of East Tennessee, to serve under Kirby Smith.

James Edwards Rains

But the forces that Maj. Gen. Edmund Kirby Smith had gathered about Knoxville, in addition to those in the neighborhood of Cumberland Gap, made the Union occupation of that post almost a barren victory.

Joseph O. Shelby

After Robert E. Lee's army surrendered in Virginia, General Edmund Kirby Smith appointed Shelby a major general on May 10, 1865.

Vidalia, Louisiana

This detachment captured the rear of Confederate General Edmund Kirby Smith's ordnance train on the Trinity road, fifteen miles from the river.


Theophilus H. Holmes

After Holmes was relieved as head of the Trans-Mississippi Department, General Kirby Smith made him head of the District of Arkansas.


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