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Size | 3.0 feet of linear shelf space (approximately 2000 items) |
Abstract | 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. |
Creator | Kirby-Smith, Edmund, 1824-1893. |
Curatorial Unit | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library. Southern Historical Collection. |
Language | English |
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.
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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.
Back to TopThe 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.
Back to TopFolder 1a |
Original finding aid |
Folder 1 |
1702-1796 |
Folder 2 |
1797-1804 |
Folder 3 |
1818-1827 |
Folder 4 |
1830-1832 |
Folder 5 |
1834-1837 |
Folder 6 |
1838-1839 |
Folder 7 |
1840 |
Folder 8 |
1841 |
Folder 9 |
1842-1843 |
Folder 10 |
1844 |
Folder 11 |
1845 |
Folder 12 |
1846 |
Folder 13 |
1847 |
Folder 14 |
1848-1849 |
Folder 15 |
1850-1853 |
Folder 16 |
1854-1856 |
Folder 17 |
1857-1858 |
Folder 18 |
1859 |
Folder 19 |
1860 |
Folder 20-27
Folder 20Folder 21Folder 22Folder 23Folder 24Folder 25Folder 26Folder 27 |
1861 |
Folder 28-34
Folder 28Folder 29Folder 30Folder 31Folder 32Folder 33Folder 34 |
1862 |
Folder 35-36
Folder 35Folder 36 |
1863 |
Folder 37-45
Folder 37Folder 38Folder 39Folder 40Folder 41Folder 42Folder 43Folder 44Folder 45 |
1864 |
Folder 46-50
Folder 46Folder 47Folder 48Folder 49Folder 50 |
1865 |
Folder 51 |
Trans-Mississippi reports, 1865-1866 |
Folder 52-53
Folder 52Folder 53 |
1866 |
Folder 54 |
1867-1869 |
Folder 55 |
1870 |
Folder 56 |
1871-1875 |
Folder 57 |
1876-1885 |
Folder 58 |
1887-1889 |
Folder 59 |
1890-1892 |
Folder 60 |
1-14 March 1893 |
Folder 61 |
15-31 March 1893 |
Folder 62 |
April-May 1893 |
Folder 63 |
1893Contains three letters from A.H. (Alexander) Darnes (d. 1894) an African American physician who as an enslaved man was Edmund Kirby-Smith's "war valet" during the American Civil War. Of note is the attachment to the third letter, a handwritten draft of Darnes's "A Servant's Tribute to Gen. Kirby-Smith." Darnes wrote the "Tribute" for a Confederate veterans organization, The Army of Tennessee, which held a memorial for Kirby Smith. |
Folder 64 |
1894-1906 |
Folder 65 |
Undated |
Folder 66 |
Notes and memoranda on the Kentucky campaign, 1862 |
Folder 67 |
Articles, notes, biography, and miscellaneous |
Folder 68 |
Clippings |
Folder 69 |
Miscellaneous printed items |
Folder 70 |
Volume 1 |
Folder 70a |
Volume 1 enclosures |
Folder 71 |
Volume 2 |
Folder 72-75
Folder 72Folder 73Folder 74Folder 75 |
Volume 3 |
Folder 76 |
Volume 4 |
Folder 77 |
Volume 5: notebook, June-August 1865 |
Folder 78 |
Volume 6: Sea Weeds |
Image Folder PF-404/1 |
Photographs |
Oversize Paper Folder OPF-404/1 |
Oversize papers |
M-404/1-7
M-404/1M-404/2M-404/3M-404/4M-404/5M-404/6M-404/7 |
Microfilm |