Person:Edmund Kirby Smith (2)

Orange County, New York, 1850 census:^[3]

Porter, Fitz. J. 26 yrs Officer, U.S.A. b. New Hampshire

McClellan, George B. 23 yrs Officer, U.S.A. b. Pennsylvania

Smith, Edmund 26 yrs Officer, U.S.A. b. Florida

[+ 4 other Army officers & a large, unrelated family, mostly laborers]

Henry County, Kentucky, 1870 census:^[4]

Smith, Edmund 44 yrs Teacher b. Florida

      Cassie S. 31 yrs Keeping house (real estate = $7,000; personal estate = $700) b. Virginia

      Carrie S. 7 yrs b. Virginia

      Fannie 5 yrs b. Texas

      Edmund K. 3 yrs b. Kentucky

      Lydia 2 yrs b. Kentucky

      Rowena S. 8/12 yr b. Kentucky

NOTE: Not clear whether all the property belonged to his wife, or whether the enumerator simply put it on the wrong line. And note that Lydia is shown as two years old, though other sources all say she was born in the spring of 1871.

Franklin County, Kentucky, 1880 census:^[5]

Smith, E. Kirby 55 yrs Teacher b. Florida (parents, b. Connecticut)

      Cassie S. 42 yrs Wife Keeping House b. Virginia (parents, b. Virginia)

      Carrie S. 17 yrs Dau At School b. Virginia (parents, b. Florida/Virginia)

      Francis K. 15 yrs Dau At School b. Texas (parents, b. Florida/Virginia)

      Edmond Kirby 13 yrs Son At School b. Kentucky (parents, b. Florida/Virginia)

      Lydia 11 yrs Dau At School b. Kentucky (parents, b. Florida/Virginia)

      Rowena S. 9 yrs Dau At School b. Kentucky (parents, b. Florida/Virginia)

      E. Chaplin 7 yrs Dau At School b. Tennessee (parents, b. Florida/Virginia)

      Raynold Morris 5 yrs Son At School b. Tennessee (parents, b. Florida/Virginia)

      Wm. Selden 3 yrs Son b. Tennessee (parents, b. Florida/Virginia)

      Josephine B. 1 yr Dau b. Tennessee (parents, b. Florida/Virginia)

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 1.6 1.7} Find A Grave.

   Edmund Kirby-Smith

2. ↑ ^{2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4} Wikipedia: The Free Encyclopedia.

   Edmund Kirby Smith
   
   Served in the Mexican War under Taylor and Scott. Brevetted for gallantry. Fought at Palo Alto & Resaca de la Palma. Taught math at the Military Academy, 1849-52. Served with the 2nd U.S. Cavalry in Texas as a captain & major, 1855-61. When Texas seceded, he refused to surrender his command at Camp Colorado and expressed his willingness to fight to hold it. Resigned his U.S. Army commission, 6 Apr 1861, and joined the CSA forces. Chief of staff to Gen. Joe Johnston at Harper's Ferry and helped organize the Army of the Shenandoah. Rose to colonel, then general, and was severely wounded at Manassas. Given command of the Dept of the Trans-Mississippi (Texas, Arkansas, & western Louisiana), Jan 1863. Surrendered the last remaining military force of the Confederacy, 26 May 1865. Immediately went to Mexico, then Cuba, to avoid charges of treason.

3. ↑ ^3.0 3.1 Orange, New York, United States. 1850 U.S. Census Population Schedule
   p. 180B, dwelling/family 538/610 ("West Point").
4. ↑ ^4.0 4.1 Henry, Kentucky, United States. 1870 U.S. Census Population Schedule
   p. 340A, dwelling/family 150/189.
5. ↑ ^5.0 5.1 Franklin, Kentucky, United States. 1880 U.S. Census Population Schedule
   ED 98, p. 183D, dwelling/family 72/69.
6.   Harrisburg (Pennsylvania) Patriot
   p. 8, 8 Jun 1865.

   Capitulation of Kirby Smith.
   Particulars of the Surrender.
   The Federal Forces Marching Into Texas.
   
   New York, June 3.---The New Orleans papers received here contain the details of the surrender of Kirby Smith's forces. The capitulation was completed on the 25th of May. Gen. Buckner, it appears, conducted the last capitulation, as he did the first, at Fort Donelson. He showed General Canby indisputable authority to act for Smith. The Rebel navy was represented by Captain Carter.
   
   General Dick Taylor was present. It is probable, therefore, that a competent Federal force will move forward at once to occupy the principal cities in Texas. In the meantime the Rebel representatives will remain within our lines to give counsel and advice as to social order, while General Smith proceeds through his department to prepare the people for coming events.
   
   A petition is in circulation in Mobile, to President Johnson, for the adoption of measures to bring Alabama again into the Union.
   
   New York, June 3.---Advices from New Orleans give the details of the surrender of Kirby Smith's forces, but the main facts have already been stated. The report says that some of the Rebel Generals requested permission to be allowed to take twenty thousand men across the Rio Grande to the assistance of Juarez.
   
   The rebel generals were very anxious to obtain permission to ship and sell cotton enough to pay their troops, but the scheme fell through. The rebel General Price has gone to Galveston on the transport Clinton, and Generals Buckner and Brant have returned to Alexandria, accompanied by General Herron, who will arrange for the occupation of the country by the Union forces. General Bailey's expedition from Mobile arrived at Baton Rouge, and were well received by the people along the whole line of march.
   
   No armed bodies were seen, except a few guerillas, a party of whom dashed into our lines at Eaton, Mississippi, and shot one of our men and escaped, though the citizens co-operated with our troops in the attempt to catch them.
   
   We yesterday published the official announcement of Gen. Kirby Smith's surrender. His department embraced all the rebel Confederacy beyond the Mississippi. It was subdivided into the departments or districts of Missouri, Arkansas, West Louisiana and Texas, New Mexico and Arizona. The forces embraced in the four armies which constituted his command were all concentrated in West Louisiana and Texas, and comprised about twenty-five thousand men. The following is a list of the general officers commanding, who are embraced in the surrender:
   
   Lieutenant General Simon Bolivar Buckner, of Kentucky, commanding District of West Louisiana; John B. Hood, of Texas, en route to his home from Richmond; Sterling Price, of Missouri.
   
   Major Generals John S. Bowen, of Missouri, commanding division of Price's army; John B. Clark, of Missouri, commanding division of Price's army; Thomas C. Hindman, of Arkansas; John Bankhead Magruder, of Louisiana, commanding district of Arkansas; S. B. Maxey, commanding Indian district; John G. Walker, of Missouri, commanding district of Texas, New Mexico and Arizona, together with 30 Brigadier Generals.

7.   Trenton (New Jersey) Times
   p. 6, 13 Mar 1893.

   
   LAST CONFEDERATE GENERAL.
   
   Edmund Kirby Smith In the Role of a Professor of Mathematics.
   
   Of the seven full generals who fought on the Confederate side during the "late unpleasantness." but one survives, General Edmund Kirby Smith, and his present duties are cast in lines not even remotely suggestive of the din of war, for the old warhorse is now a college professor. He ably fills the chair of mathematics in the University of the South at Sewanee, Tenn. General Smith is perhaps the only man living, certainly the only ex-officer, who participated in every battle of the Mexican war. Although 70 years of age, he is well preserved, and his flowing white beard and long hair give him a patriarchal appearance which is decidedly the reverse of military.
   
   And yet, as the world knows, Kirby Smith was a hard fighter. He comes of a family of fighters. He was born in St. Augustine and graduated from West Point in 1845. In the Mexican war he earned two brevets for signal gallantry at Cerro Gordo and Contreras. He served in several campaigns against the Indians and was wounded by the Comanches in Texas in 1859. He was tenderly nursed by a lady whom he afterward married. He became a major of the United State army in January, 1861, but resigned in April, when the state of Florida seceded. He received his commission as lieutenant colonel of cavalry in the Confederate army, became brigadier general June 17, 1861, major general Oct. 11, 1861, lieutenant general Oct. 9, 1862, and general Feb. 19, 1864. He was severely wounded at the battle of Bull Run, a minie ball passing entirely through his body below the shoulders. He served with distinction throughout the war, especially in his Red river campaign, when he was opposed to the Union general, Nathaniel P. Banks.
   
   When hostilities ceased, General Smith retired to private life, from which he was called to take the presidency of the Atlantic and Pacific Telegraph company in 1866. He gave up this position in 1868, and in 1870 accepted the chancellorship of the University of Nashville, from which he retired in 1875, since which time he has been professor of mathematics in the University of the South at Sewanee.
   
   Here, if the veteran general carries out his present plans, he will pass the remainder of his days. General Smith was a great admirer of Beauregard and regards him as one of the greatest civil engineers the world has ever produced.

8.   The Times-Picayune. (New Orleans, Orleans, Louisiana, United States)
   p. 2, 1 Apr 1893.

   GENERAL E. KIRBY SMITH.
   
   The Great Soldier Buried With Church and Military Honors -- Impressive Services.
   
   Nashville, Tenn., March 31.---At 1:30 o'clock this afternoon, in the little cemetery at Sewanee, the remains of General Edmund Kirby Smith were buried with church and military honors. The body lay in state in St. Luke's Hall and was carried from there to St. Augustine chapel, escorted by the procession which formed when the special train arrived bringing delegations, bivouacs all over the state, comprising companies of state troops, members of the legislature, and the governor's staff, and hundreds of citizens. The services were held in St. Augustine's chapel and were conducted by Rt. Rev. C. T. Quintard, bishop of Tennessee, assisted by many clergymen. About 1000 persons were in attendance. The chancel and coffin were elaborately decorated with flowers.
   
   During the procession the body was under escort of the military and the dead march was played by the band.
   
   The following was the order of the procession:
   
   Band, military escort, hearse, pallbearers, honorary pallbearers, family, students, faculties, bivouacs, citizens.
   
   The Rev. Mr. Gailor, vice chancellor of the University of the South, pronounced a glowing eulogy, and Colonel Thomas Claiborne responded to a request to say a few words in behalf of the old comrades of General Smith.
   
   At the grave the services were impressive and a parting salute was fired as the grave was closed.
   
   Among the clergy were Rev. Mr. Taylor and Dr. Burton, of Louisville; Dr. Smith, president of Trinity church, Hartford, Ct.; Colonel Baxter Smith, of Nashville, who was commander-in-chief of the bivouacs and soldiery, and the funeral was under the direction of the Confederate Veterans;]' Association of the South.
   
   Prominent men from all parts of the country were in attendance at the obsequies and the sorrow evinced was general and outspoken.
   
   By special dispensation the chapel of the University St. Augustine was opened, the parish church being too small for the great crowd of visitors.
   
   Beautiful flowers were placed in the chancel and in the vacant stall so long occupied by the late general.
   
   After the service a eulogy by Dr. Gailor brought out in most elegant words the characteristics of the true and brave general. He was followed by Colonel Claiborne, who said:
   
   "Nothing has been overstated in the glowing words of praise uttered by that master of language, Vice Chancellor Gailor."
   
   He said that this country has seen no more illustrious man than General E. Kirby Smith.
   
   Among the visitors in attendance were many of the close associates of General Smith from New Orleans, Memphis and other southern cities.
   
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   Personal Reminiscences.
   
   General Bradley T. Johnson Recalls Kirby Smith's Valor in War.
   
   The Baltimore Sun says: General Bradley T. Johnson, of Baltimore, when informed by a representative of the Sun last night of the death of Gen. E. Kirby Smith, said: "I first met Major E. Kirby Smith as assistant adjutant general on General Joseph E. Johnston's staff at Harper's Ferry in May, 1861. After our retreat from that point I was very much shocked one day at headquarters by a discussion between Major Smith and W. H. H. Whiting, afterward major general, who was killed at Wilmington in 1865. The two soldiers were discussing the chances of war. Major Smith said:
   
   "'I will be glad to compromise if I get off with my life, with the loss of a limb, a leg or an arm."'
   
   "This was encouraging to a young militiaman who had never heard a shot fired in anger. I said nothing but thought---
   
   "Directly afterward Kirby Smith was put in command of a brigade of the First Maryland, Third Tennessee and Tenth and Thirteenth Virginia. Before the middle of July, 1861, a division was formed of his old brigade and another. Colonel Arnold Elzey became commander of the fourth brigade, leaving Lieutenant Colonel George H. Steuart in command of the First Maryland, with myself as major and acting lieutenant colonel.
   
   "Thus organized, on July 19, we marched to Manassas from Winchester. We left our horses at Piedmont to come with the train, and went on b the cars. We got to Manassas Junction about sunrise Sunday, July 21.
   
   "As Colonel Elzey got us out of the cars and we were piling knapsacks and stripping for the fight, Kirby Smith dashed up in a gallop.
   
   "'Foreward, First Maryland! he shouted: 'The watchword is Sumter and the signal is this,' throwing his hand up to his forehead, palm outward -- 'March to the firing!'
   
   "The regiment gave a yell and started. We went double-quicking as long as wind held out and rested, and then on again toward the firing. Kirby Smith assumed command of the brigade, detached A. P. Hill toward Blackburn's ford and directed our three regiments. After an hour or two I became utterly played out. I had the scurvy, but did not know it. At a halt for rest I went up to Colonel Elzey, who had got a horse, and said: 'Colonel, I can't keep up. I am played out, unless you give me a horse.'
   
   "At the instant a fire broke out from a thicket on our right, and Kirby Smith fell over the neck of his horse. 'There,' said Elzey, 'God is just, get Smith's horse.' I started for the horse, but he got away. I got another.
   
   "General Smith came back to us in the winter of 1861-1862 and commanded a division in the army of the Potomac, as General Johnston's army was called. It became the army of Northern Virginia only when General Lee assumed command, June 30, 1862.
   
   "After he left Manassas General Kirby Smith went west and at the end of the war he was a lieutenant general in command of the department of the west, comprising all the forces west of the Mississippi river. He surrendered that department in 1865 after Lee and Johnston's surrender.
   
   "Some time after the war he became president of the University of the South, at Sewanee, Tenn., an institution under the direction and patronage of the bishops of the Protestant Episcopal Church.
   
   "The death of Kirby Smith cuts the roster of Confederate generals very short. No general survives at all. Of the lieutenant generals, Wade Hampton, Jubal Early and John B. Gordon are the only ones I know who ever wore three equal stars."

9.   New York Herald (New York City, New York)
   29 Mar 1893.

   E. KIRBY SMITH DEAD.
   Last of the Confederacy's Full Generals Passes Away at His Home in Tennessee.
   
   [by telegraph to The Herald]
   
   Nashville, Tenn., March 28, 1893.---General E. Kirby Smith died at his home at Sewanee tonight. He was the last of the full Confederate generals. He was one of the most prominent figures of the war on the rebel side, occupying as he did the position of Provisional Secretary of War while stationed in charge of the entire Trans-Mississippi department.
   
   GENRAL SMITH'S CAREER.
   
   Edmund Kirby Smith was born in St. Augustine, Fla., on May 16, 1824. His father was Joseph L. Smith, first presiding judge of the United States Supreme Court for the Eastern District of Florida, and formerly a lawyer of Litchfield, Conn. His father had been in the United States army. Edmund and another brother, Ephraim, were sent to West Point and were graduated from that place. The former fought in the Mexican War and was killed at the storming of the city of Mexico. Edmund was admitted to West Point in 1841 and was commissioned, upon his graduation in 1845, a second lieutenant of the Fifth United States infantry. He was assigned to duty immediately under General Taylor and participated in all of that officer's engagements in Mexico, except Buena Vista, and in those fought by Scott, to whom he was transferred after Taylor's last battle.
   
   He was promoted for his services in the Mexican war to a captain.
   
   After peace was declared Captain Smith was transferred to West Point, where he remained for three years as assistant instructor of mathematics. He served later under Major Emory on the Boundary Commissioin to locate the line between Mexico and the United States. Upon the organization of the cavalry regiments he was assisgned to the Second regiment as a captain and was ordered to Texas, where he was engaged against the Comanche Indians. He served for several years until the outbreak of hostilities between the North and South, when he resigned his commission as major in the United States army to offer his services to the Confederacy. He had previously won the thanks of the Texas Legislature for his work against the troublesome Indians.
   
   SMITH EARLY APPRECIATED.
   
   His value was so fully appreciated by the Confederate leaders that he was given a commission as major of cavalry and almost immediately after was made a lieutenant colonel of Van Dorn's cavalry. Before he could join his command he was set to work at Lynchburg to organize the trops gathered there. Here "Joe" Johnston found him and made him his adjutant general and took him to Harper;s Ferry. He was promoted a brigadier general while acting as adjutant general, and was assigned to a brigade of Johnston's corps.
   
   He made himself felt early in the war. When the battle of Bull Run was fought Smith marched thirty miles to join in the movement and he attacked at such an opportune time that, with Kershaw, he succeeded in changing the current of the battle.
   
   During the last charge he was so severely wounded that he was forced to retire from the field. He was carried to the residence of Colonel John K. McDaniel of Lynchburg, where he was nursed back to health by the Colonel's handsome daughter. As General Smith regained his health he lost his heart, and the romance had the happy ending that attached itself to so many similar events of the war.He bevame a benedict and a major general at the same time.
   
   Upon his complete recovery he was sent to East Tennessee, where he took command of the detached right wing of Bragg's army. He was sent by Davis early in 1863 to relieve Holmes in command of the Trans-Mississippi Department. Though at the time this was a position of considerable leisure it soom became one of great importance. Grant's victories at Vicksburg and elsewhere had effectually cut the Confederacy in two, and communication between Richmond and Smith's headquarters was so irregular that it became necessary for the rebel Congress to endow Smith with greater powers and a higher rank even than that of major general. He was finally made a full general, becoming thus the sixth officer of the rebel army to hold that rank, the others being Cooper, "Joe" Johnston, Lee, Beauregard and Bragg, in the order named.
   
   He became a few years later president of the Atlantic and Pacific Telegraph Company and afterward accepted the presidency of the University of Nashville, which he retained until 1875. He was then made professor of mathematics in the University of the South.