The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1893-03-29
EDMUND KIRBY SMITH DEAD
The Noted Confederate Dies at SewaDee,
Tenn, of Congestion of the Lungs.
Last of the Full Generals That Served Oh
Either Side of the Civil Wsr-Member of
Distinguished Family Of Soldiers.

SEwANEE, Tenn, March 28-Gen. f. Kir-
by Smith. professor of mathematics in the
University of the South since 1875, died
here this afternoon at 3:25 O'Clock. For
two years his health has been declining.
Two weeks ago he was taken sick in New
Orleans, and was confined TO his bed for
five or six days, but recovered sufficiently
TO travel. and reported at Sewanee ready
for duty Monday. March H. Two days
afterward he caught cold and n relapse en-
sued, his condition being complicated by
congestion of the right lung. Once or twice
during temporary periods OF seml-cOn-
sciOusness his mind wandered through past
scenes and he ordered the batteries TO come
uD. Early this morning he became uncon-
scious. HIS end was very peaceful. His
wife and six of his family were with him.
One of his very last connected utterances
was O verse from the twenty third Psalm:
Though walk through the valley of the
shadow of death l will fear no evil. for
Thou art with me-"
Edmund Kirby Smith was born in st.
Augustine, Fla. May 10, 1924, and was.
therefore, in tho sixty-ninth year of his
age. With him closes the list of full gen.
erals on both sides during the late war.
His commission as full general in the con-
federate service was issued Feb 10, 1864.
He came from an illustrious family of SOL
diers. that has participated with distinc-
ton In every war waged in this country
since the old French war. His grandfather
served both against the French and the
British, being major in the revolutionary
war. His father was colonel in the war of
1919 and was afterwards made United
States Judge of the Superior Court Of
Florida. His brother was twice brevetted
for gallantry on the field in the same war.
Gen. f. Kirby Smith was distinguished
in the Me xIcan war ana later as an Indian
fighter. He was assistant professor at
West Point from 1s49 to 1852. having gradu-
ated in 1S45 He resigned his rank as IN ajor
in the United States army to enter the con-
federate service, beginning as lieutenant
Y yereIv vonnded m at Rnll p Pnp Hs lsd a the Ies
advance of Gen. Braxton BraGg's army in
the Kentucky campaign. and defeated the
Union forces under Gen. William Nelson at
Issa Richmond s Ky: ,an., in August; s r.; 1862 In
mississippi department, and com.
municated with Richmond by running
the blockades at Galveston, Tex, and
Wilmington, N. G. He had been ordered to
organize government. and sent large
quantities of cotton TO confederate agents
abroad, and. introducing machinery from
Europe. established factories Gnd furnaces,
opened mines, made powder aud castings.
and made the district self.suppOrtlng when
the war closed. at which time his forces
were the last TO surrender. He was presi-
dent of the Atlantic and Pacific Teleg grapn
Company in 1865. and chancellor of the
University of Nashville in 1905. He
married Miss Carrie Solden. of Virginia. In
1863. and his wife, with elevon children,
survive him.
Other Deaths.
CLEVELAND, March 2S-John l.. Woods
banker and philan thropist. of this city.
died last night at Augusta Ga. Mr..
Woodss gifts to the medical department. of
Western Reserve University have aggre-
gated S250,000. To the WOman's College he
gave $4,000, ana to many other similar in
stitutiOns he gave generous sums.
NEW YORK. March 2S.-George II. Gait,
one of the best-known men in the art world
of New York, has died suddenly at his
studio, in the Association Hall building.
He was English by birth. but had dwelt in
this city many years.
TAMPA. Fla, March 2a-D. G. Writ, of
Oak Grove, Va. q son of William Writ.
Attorney general OF the United States
under President Monroe, and assistant
prosecutor in the trial of Aaron Burr, died
here yesterday.
CHICAGO, March 2S.-Hon. B. 8. We'll. ex-
Senator of Washington county, Wis, died
here this morning. at the age of ninety.
one. The Senator was one of the pioneers
of Wisconsin. and prominent in politics for
many years.