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12 de may. de 2024 · E. Kirby-Smith was a Confederate general during the American Civil War (1861–65) who controlled the area west of the Mississippi River for the Confederacy for almost two years after it had been severed from the rest of the South. Born Edmund Kirby Smith, he later signed his name E. Kirby Smith; the
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
Hace 3 días · On July 19–20, significant reinforcements bolstered the Confederate lines behind Bull Run. Johnston arrived with all of his army except for the troops of Brig. Gen. Kirby Smith, who were still in transit.
- July 21, 1861
- Confederate victory
26 de abr. de 2024 · On June 2, 1865, Smith surrendered his army at Galveston, Texas, the last general with a major field force. That could be what distinguishes him; he was the last general to give up.
Hace 3 días · Smith was commissioned as a Lieutenant Colonel in the cavalry in the Confederate army. On June 17, he was promoted to Brigadier General. At the 1st Bull Run, he was severely wounded. He was promoted to major general on October 11 and given command of a division under Gen. P.G.T. Beauregard.
25 de abr. de 2024 · General Edmund Kirby Smith, commanding the Confederate Trans-Mississippi Department, reacted to Banks’s retreat by transferring three divisions from Lieutenant-General Richard Taylor’s Confederate army in Louisiana to Major-General Sterling Price’s force in Arkansas to increase the pressure on Steele.
26 de abr. de 2024 · Other bushwhackers fled to Texas, where the largest remaining Confederate army – estimated at 60,000 in Spring 1865 – still served under the command of Gen. Edmund Kirby Smith. Some Confederates in Texas held out hope of making Texas a republic once again.
8 de may. de 2024 · On April 26, 1862, Edmund Kirby Smith, commanding the Confederate Department of East Tennessee in Knoxville, reported that “the enemy are pressing Cumberland Gap with superior forces.”
