Confederate General Edmund Kirby Smith was a graduate of West Point's class of 1845. He ranked 26th in his class.
Confederate General Edmund Kirby Smith graduated from West Point in 1842. He ranked sixteenth out of a graduating class of fifty six. Smith is best known for his battles in the Western Theater.
Confederate General Edmund Kirby Smith graduated from West Point in 1845. Smith was ranked 25th in a graduating class of cadets numbering 41. Smith was instrumental in Confederate battles in the Western Theater. He and General Braxton Bragg led a raid into Kentucky in 1862. Kirby served in the Confederate victory at the Battle of Richmond, Kentucky.
Confederate General Kirby Smith lowered the Confederate flag in the Trans-Mississippi on May 26, 1865.
Confederate General Edmund Kirby Smith surrendered his army in Galveston, Texas on June 2, 1865. He then traveled to Mexico and later Cuba in hopes of establishing a colony of Confederate exiles. He soon abandoned this idea and returned to the US. He later became the president of the University of Nashville. He died in 1893, being the last surviving full general of either army.
Confederate General Kirby Smith and Braxton Bragg believed that Kentucky's neutrality had given it no guarantees from the Union and the Confederate raid there would bring Kentucky into the Confederacy.
Union General Edmund Kirby graduated from West Point in 1861. He was ranked tenth among the 45 cadets in his graduating class. Kirby spent his battlefield action in the Eastern Theater of the US Civil War. He was in the First Battle of Bull Run, and later served in the Peninsula campaign. He also served in the battles of Antietam and Chancellorsville. It was in the latter battle that he was wounded and died several weeks later from that wound.
In the Western theater, on August 21, General Braxton Brag's army reached Chattanooga Tennessee. There he and prepared his forces to join the Confederate offensive started by General Kirby.
Edmund Kirby - army officer - died in 1863.
Edmund Kirby - army officer - was born in 1840.
Edmund Kirby Smith died on 1893-03-28.
On August 30,1862, Confederate General Edmund Kirby Smith defeated a Union army under General William Nelson, near Richmond (Kentucky). It was a decisive Confederate victory: the Federal losses were 206 killed, 844 wounded and 4,303 prisoners, those of the Confederates 78 killed, 372 wounded and 1 missing.
The battle of Richmond took place at Richmond, Virginia. :)