Bushrod Johnson
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Bushrod Rust Johnson was a Confederate general in the American Civil War and an officer in the United States Army. As a university professor he had been active in the state militias of Kentucky and Te
Bushrod Johnson
Edmund Kirby Smith
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Edmund Kirby Smith was a Confederate States Army general, who oversaw the Trans-Mississippi Department from 1863 to 1865. Before the American Civil War, Smith served as an officer of the United States
Bushrod Johnson
…was paroled. Johnson returned to teaching to become a professor and co-chancellor (1870) of the University of Nashville with former Confederate General Edmund Kirby Smith. His health failing, he retired in 1875 to a farm near Brighton, Illinois, where he died in 1880. He was originally buried in Miles Station, near…
Smith in uniform, c. 1862
Edmund Kirby Smith's boyhood home at St. Augustine, Florida
Smith in uniform, 1861
A plaque marking Smith's former residence at Shreveport, Louisiana