Smith, Edmund Kirby (1824–1893)

US soldier. Resigning from the US Army in 1861 after 16 years service, he joined the Confederate army. He led the advance into Kentucky in 1862 and fought at the battle of Perryville; he was then reassigned to head the Trans-Mississippi Department. On 2 June 1865, he became the last senior Confederate commander to surrender.

He was born in St Augustine, Florida. He served in the Mexican war and on the frontier. He was president of the University of Nashville 1870–75, and then he taught mathematics at the University of the South at Sewanee 1875–93.