General Kirby Smith

Published in 1907 by the University Of The South at Sewanee, Tennessee, this is a biography of Confederate General Edmund Kirby-Smith.

Smith was a West Point graduate who fought in the Mexican War and served in the famed pre- Civil War Second Dragoons. He quickly made general officer rank in the Confederacy when he took part in the ill fated 1862 Kentucky affair. He was posted as commander in what became "Smithdom," that being the huge area East of the Rockies and West of the Mississippi River. He was credited with the defeat of Banks in 1864 when much of the credit should go to General Richard Taylor. He taught mathematics and became a botanist of note following the War.