biography
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Smith, Edmund Kirby
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| male
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| lived:
| (1824–93)
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| biography:
| US soldier, born in St Augustine, Florida, USA. Resigning from the US Army (1861) after 16 years, including service in the Mexican War and on the frontier, he joined the Confederate army. He led the advance into Kentucky (1862) and fought at the Battle of Perryville, and was then reassigned to head the Trans-Mississippi Department. On 2 June 1865, he became the last senior Confederate commander to surrender. He was president of the University of Nashville (1870–5), then taught mathematics at the University of the South at Sewanee (1875–93). |
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