. Gen. Robert Edward Lee; soldier, citizen, and Christian patriot. GENERAI, EDMUND KIRBY SMITH. (568) GENERAL EDMUND KIRBY SMITH. Born in St. Augustine, Fla., May i6th, 1824, was graduatedat West Point Military Academy in 1845. His career was excep-tionally brilliant and distinguished. In the war with Mexico hewas twice brevetted for gallantry—at Cerro Gordo and at was wounded in the battle of Bull Run, 1861 ; after which hewas in command of the Department embracing East Tennesseeand Kentucky, and defeated the Federal army at Richmond, Ky.,in August, 1862. Assigned to the command
. Gen. Robert Edward Lee; soldier, citizen, and Christian patriot. GENERAI, EDMUND KIRBY SMITH. (568) GENERAL EDMUND KIRBY SMITH. Born in St. Augustine, Fla., May i6th, 1824, was graduatedat West Point Military Academy in 1845. His career was excep-tionally brilliant and distinguished. In the war with Mexico hewas twice brevetted for gallantry—at Cerro Gordo and at was wounded in the battle of Bull Run, 1861 ; after which hewas in command of the Department embracing East Tennesseeand Kentucky, and defeated the Federal army at Richmond, Ky.,in August, 1862. Assigned to the command of the Trans-Missis-sippi Department, he organized a government embracing Texas,Louisiana, Arkansas and the Indian Territor}, and managed it inthe interest of the Confederacy with the greatest success to theend of the Civil War. He made his department self-supporting,and his army was the last to surrender. In 1864 he defeatedGeneral N. P. Banks in his Red River campaign. From 1875to the time of his death, he was connected with the Universityof the South at Sew
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