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Hace 6 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
19 de abr. de 2024 · The Confederate commander of the Trans-Mississippi, Lieutenant General Edmund Kirby Smith, supervising the defense of Louisiana under Major General Richard Taylor, could not determine which column constituted the primary attack element.
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.
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.
19 de abr. de 2024 · In late 1863, following the September 10 capture of Little Rock (Pulaski County), Lieutenant General Edmund Kirby Smith, Confederate commander of the Trans-Mississippi Department, ordered Lieutenant General Theophilus Holmes to concentrate his forces along the Ouachita River to defend the approaches to Shreveport, Louisiana, against ...
26 de abr. de 2024 · Confederate Gen. Edmund Kirby Smith in Uniform, 1862. In Part I of this post, I shared an excerpt from my book A State Divided: The Civil War Letters of James Callaway Hale and Benjamin Petree of Andrew County, Missouri, describing the surrender of Confederate Gen. Joseph Johnston to Union Gen. William Tecumseh Sherman on April 26, 1865.
Hace 6 días · In 2016, Florida state lawmakers voted to replace its statue of Confederate Gen. Edmund Kirby Smith with one of civil rights leader, Mary McLeod Bethune. The statue was officially installed in...
