Edmund Kirby Smith - St. Augustine, Florida - Blue Plaques on Waymarking.com

General Edmund Kirby Smith, born in 1824 in St. Augustine, graduated from West Point in 1845 and served in the army during the Mexican War. He resigned from the U. S. Army to join the Confederacy. He served under generals Joseph Johnston, Gustave Beauregard and Braxton Bragg and was instrumental in Confederate success at the First Battle of Bull Run in Virginia. In 1863, he was promoted to Lieutenant General commanding the Trans-Mississippi Department, the highest-ranking Confederate officer in the western campaign. On May 26, 1865, he surrendered his troops, the last major Confederate army to surrender. Following the war, Kirby Smith served as president of a telegraph company, then of the Western Military Academy in Nashville, and became a mathematics teacher at the University of the South in Sewanee, Tennessee. General Edmund Kirby Smith died in 1893, the last surviving full general of either army.

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Blue Plaque managing agency: Florida Department of State - Florida League of Cities Individual Recognized: Edmund Kirby Smith Physical Address: 12 Aviles Street St. Augustine, Fl USA 32080 Web Address: [Web Link]

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