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ready for duty March 10. Two days
afterwards he caught cold, his condl-
ton being complicated by congestion
of the right lung. Everything in
human power was done to save
him, but from the first it was evident
that the chances were against his recov-
cry. Once or twice during temporary
periods OF semi-consciousness his mind
wandered through war scenes and he
ordered the battery to come up. Early
this morning he became totally un-
conscious. His end was very peaceful.
His wife and six of his family were
with him. He died as he had lived,
bright, strong and confident of his
Christian faith and hope. One of his
very last connected utterances was a
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-" Funeral serv-
ices Will be held Friday.
Descended From Soldiers
Gen.E. Kirby Smith was born in St.Au
gustine, Fla, May 16, 1924, and was there
fore in the sixty-eighth year of his age.
With him closes the list of full generals
on both sides during the late war, his
commission as full general in the Con-
federate service having been issued Feb.
10, 1864. He came from an illustrious
family of soldiers that has participated
with distinction in every war waged in
this country since the old French war.
His grandfather served against the
French and British, being major
in the revolutionary war. His
father was colonel of the war
of 1912, and was afterwards made
United States judge of the superior
court of Florida. His elder brother was
twice brevetted for gallantry OH the
field in the same war. Gen. Smith mar
ried Miss Cassie Seldom, of Virginia, in
1868. His wife and eleven children sur
viYe him. His eldest son. Z. X. Smith
Jr.. has been for some years civil en-
gineer in Mexico.
He was graduated at the United States
military academy i'll 1915. and appointed
brevet second lieutenant of infantry.
In the war with Mexico he was twice
brevetted for gallantry at Cerre Gordo
and Contreras. He was assistant pro-
fesSOr of mathematics at West Point IN
1882, became captain in the Second
cavalry in 1855,
Served on the Frontier,
and was wounded May 13, 1859, in an
engagement with Comanche Indians
near old Fort AtchiSOn. Tex. In 1861 he
was thanked by the Texas legislature
for his services against the Indians. He
was promoted major in January. 1861,
but resigned on April Con the secession
of Florida, and was appointed lieuten-
anti-coonel in the corps of cavalry of
the Confederate army. tie became
brigadier general June II 1861, major
general Oct. II, 1861. lieutenant general
Oct g. 1862 and general Feb. 10, 1864.
At the battle of Bull Run, July 81, 1861,
he was severely wounded in the begin
ming of the engagement. In 1862 he
was placed in command of the depart
ment of East Tennessee, Kentucky
North Georgia and Western North Caro-
lima. He led the advance of Gen. BraX-
ton Bragg's army in the Kentucky cam
paign and defeated the National forces
under Gen. William Nelson at Rich.
mond. KY, Aug. 20, 1862. In February,
1868, he was assigned to the command
of the trans Mississippi depart
ment including Texas, Louisiana, Ar
kansas and Indian Territory. and was
ordered to organize a government, which
he did. He made his communications
Will hlCHu"nu ny lullnlHs In6 pIOCh-
ade at Galveston. Tex, and Whining
ton, n. c.; sent large quantities of cot
ton to Confederate agents abroad, and,
introducing machinery from Europe, es-
tabliShed factories and furnaces, OPEN
ed mines. made powder and castings,
and had made the district self-support-
ing when the war closed, at which time
his forces were the last to surrender.
In 1864 lie opposed and defeated Gen.
Nathaniel p. Banks in his Red river
campaign. Gen. Smith was president
of the Atlantic & Pacific Telegraph
company in lS66.6S, .and chancellor Of
the University of Nashville in 1S70-75,
and has been professor of mathematics
in the University of the South, Sewanee.
Tenn, since 1875.