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Preferred Citation

[Identification of item], in the Edmund Kirby-Smith Papers, #404, Southern Historical Collection, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Acquisitions Information

Gift of the Kirby-Smith family, 1834-1958

Additional Descriptive Resources

A copy of the original finding aid for this collection is filed in folder 1a.

Sensitive Materials Statement

Manuscript collections and archival records may contain materials with sensitive or confidential information that is protected under federal or state right to privacy laws and regulations, the North Carolina Public Records Act (N.C.G.S. § 132 1 et seq.), and Article 7 of the North Carolina State Personnel Act (Privacy of State Employee Personnel Records, N.C.G.S. § 126-22 et seq.). Researchers are advised that the disclosure of certain information pertaining to identifiable living individuals represented in this collection without the consent of those individuals may have legal ramifications (e.g., a cause of action under common law for invasion of privacy may arise if facts concerning an individual's private life are published that would be deemed highly offensive to a reasonable person) for which the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill assumes no responsibility.

Processed by: SHC Staff

Encoded by: Noah Huffman, December 2007

Updated by: Adam Fielding, Kate Stratton, and Jodi Berkowitz, September 2010

This collection was rehoused and a summary created with support from the National Endowment for the Humanities.

This finding aid was created with support from NC ECHO.

The following terms from Library of Congress Subject Headings suggest topics, persons, geography, etc. interspersed through the entire collection; the terms do not usually represent discrete and easily identifiable portions of the collection--such as folders or items.

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• Confederate States of America. Army
• Confederate States of America. Army--Military life.
• Confederate expatriates.
• Kentucky--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Campaigns.
• Kirby, Ephraim, 1757-1804.
• Kirby-Smith, Edmund, 1824-1893.
• Smith, Elnathan.
• United States. Army--Military life--History.
• University of Nashville--History.
• University of the South--History.

Edmund Kirby-Smith (1824-1893) was a United States Army officer, Confederate Army general, president of the University of Nashville, and professor of mathematics at the University of the South.

The collection contains correspondence and other papers, chiefly 1840-1866, of Edmund Kirby-Smith, dealing with his personal affairs, education, military career, and later life as president of the University of Nashville and professor at the University of the South at Sewanee, Tenn. Includes notes on the Kentucky campaigns of 1862; letters of the Revolutionary War period written by his grandfather, Ephraim Kirby (1757-1804) and some by Joseph Smith written to his brother, Elnathan Smith; diary and miscellaneous notes, 1849-1868; official letter book, 1863-1865; a notebook, 1865, giving an account of Kirby-Smith's flight to Cuba and Mexico; and a scrapbook of Civil War clippings.

• Photographs (PF-404/1)
• Oversized Papers (OPF-404/1)
• Microfilm (M-404/1-7)