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Edmund Kirby Smith

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Edmund Kirby Smith (May 16, 1824 – March 28, 1893) was a career United States Army officer who fought in the Mexican-American War. [1]

131 relations: Abolitionism in the United States, Adjutant general, African Americans, Alexander Darnes, American Civil War, Arkansas, Army of Northern Virginia, Army of Tennessee, Atlantic and Pacific Telegraph Company, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, Battle of Cerro Gordo, Battle of Churubusco, Battle of Contreras, Battle of Mansfield, Battle of Molino del Rey, Battle of Palo Alto, Battle of Perryville, Battle of Pleasant Hill, Battle of Resaca de la Palma, Battle of Richmond, Benjamin McCulloch, Braxton Bragg, Brevet (military), Brigade, Bushrod Johnson, Captain (United States O-3), Castillo de San Marcos, Cavalry in the American Civil War, Circa, Coleman, Texas, College Football All-Southern Team, College-preparatory school, Comanche, Confederate Army of the Shenandoah, Confederate Heartland Offensive, Confederate States Army, Cornelius Hankins, Corps, Cuba, Division (military), Dormitory, Duval County Public Schools, Edmund Kirby Smith (sculpture), Edmund Kirby Smith Hall, Ephraim Kirby-Smith, Ezra J. Warner (historian), Field artillery in the American Civil War, First Battle of Bull Run, Fort Brown, Frances Kirby Smith, ..., Frederick Steele, Galveston, Texas, General officer, General officers in the Confederate States Army, Guerrilla warfare, Hempstead, Texas, Howard University, Jacksonville, Florida, John George Walker, Joseph E. Johnston, Joseph Lee Kirby-Smith, Joseph Lee Smith, Liberty ship, Lieutenant colonel, Lincoln University (Pennsylvania), List of American Civil War generals (Confederate), Litchfield, Connecticut, Louisiana State University, Lucien Bonaparte Webster, Lynchburg, Virginia, Major, Major (United States), Mexican–American War, Mississippi River, Multiracial, Nathaniel P. Banks, National Statuary Hall Collection, New Castle, Kentucky, New Orleans, Officer (armed forces), P. G. T. Beauregard, Panama City, Florida, Philip Sheridan, Pneumonia, Price's Raid, Red River Campaign, Regular army, Regular Army (United States), Richard Taylor (general), Richmond, Virginia, Rick Scott, Rocky Mountains, Secession in the United States, Seminole, Sewanee Tigers football, Sewanee, Tennessee, Sewanee: The University of the South, Shenandoah Valley, Shreveport, Louisiana, Siege of Port Hudson, Siege of Vicksburg, Smithsonian Institution, Sons of Confederate Veterans, St. Augustine, Florida, Sterling Price, Texas, Thanks of Congress, The Guardian, The Palm Beach Post, Third Corps, Army of Tennessee, Trans-Mississippi Department, Treason, Tuberculosis, Ulysses S. Grant, United Confederate Veterans, United Daughters of the Confederacy, United States, United States Army, United States Capitol, United States Military Academy, University of Nashville, Vanderbilt University, Virginia, Walker's Greyhounds, Winfield Scott, Yellow fever, Zachary Taylor, 1899 Sewanee Tigers football team, 2nd Cavalry Regiment (United States), 5th Infantry Regiment (United States), 7th Infantry Regiment (United States). Expand index (81 more) »

Abolitionism in the United States

Abolitionism in the United States was the movement before and during the American Civil War to end slavery in the United States.

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Adjutant general

An adjutant general is a military chief administrative officer.

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African Americans

African Americans (also referred to as Black Americans or Afro-Americans) are an ethnic group of Americans with total or partial ancestry from any of the black racial groups of Africa.

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Alexander Darnes

Alexander Hanson Darnes (c.1840 - February 11, 1894) was the first African-American doctor in Jacksonville, Florida, and the second in the state.

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American Civil War

The American Civil War (also known by other names) was a war fought in the United States from 1861 to 1865.

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Arkansas

Arkansas is a state in the southeastern region of the United States, home to over 3 million people as of 2017.

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Army of Northern Virginia

The Army of Northern Virginia was the primary military force of the Confederate States of America in the Eastern Theater of the American Civil War.

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Army of Tennessee

The Army of Tennessee was the principal Confederate army operating between the Appalachian Mountains and the Mississippi River during the American Civil War.

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Atlantic and Pacific Telegraph Company

The Atlantic and Pacific Telegraph Company (A&P) was an American communications company that operated in the 19th century.

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Baton Rouge, Louisiana

Baton Rouge is the capital of the U.S. state of Louisiana and its second-largest city.

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Battle of Cerro Gordo

The Battle of Cerro Gordo, or Battle of Sierra Gordo, was an engagement that took place during the Mexican–American War on April 18, 1847.

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Battle of Churubusco

The Battle of Churubusco took place on August 20, 1847, while Santa Anna's army was in retreat from the Battle of Contreras (Padierna) during the Mexican–American War.

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Battle of Contreras

The Battle of Contreras, also known as the Battle of Padierna, took place on 19–20 August 1847, in the final encounters of the Mexican–American War.

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Battle of Mansfield

The Battle of Mansfield, Louisiana, (8 April 1864) formed part of the Red River Campaign during the American Civil War, when Union forces were aiming to occupy the state capital, Shreveport.

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Battle of Molino del Rey

The Battle of Molino del Rey (8 September 1847) was one of the bloodiest engagements of the Mexican-American War as part of the Battle for Mexico City.

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Battle of Palo Alto

The Battle of Palo Alto was the first major battle of the Mexican–American War and was fought on May 8, 1846, on disputed ground five miles (8 km) from the modern-day city of Brownsville, Texas.

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Battle of Perryville

The Battle of Perryville (also known as the Battle of Chaplin Hills) was fought on October 8, 1862, in the Chaplin Hills west of Perryville, Kentucky, as the culmination of the Confederate Heartland Offensive (Kentucky Campaign) during the American Civil War.

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Battle of Pleasant Hill

The Battle of Pleasant Hill, Louisiana (9 April 1864), formed part of the Red River Campaign during the American Civil War, when Union forces were aiming to occupy the state capital Shreveport.

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Battle of Resaca de la Palma

At the Battle of Resaca de la Palma, one of the early engagements of the Mexican–American War, United States General Zachary Taylor engaged the retreating forces of the Mexican Ejército del Norte ("Army of the North") under General Mariano Arista on May 9, 1846.

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Battle of Richmond

The Battle of Richmond, Kentucky, fought August 29–30, 1862, was a stunning Confederate victory by Major General Edmund Kirby Smith against Union major general, William "Bull" Nelson's forces, defending the town.

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Benjamin McCulloch

Benjamin McCulloch (November 11, 1811 – March 7, 1862) was a soldier in the Texas Revolution, a Texas Ranger, a major general in the Texas militia and thereafter a major in the United States Army (United States Volunteers) during the Mexican-American War, a U.S. marshal, and a brigadier general in the army of the Confederate States during the American Civil War.

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Braxton Bragg

Braxton Bragg (March 22, 1817 – September 27, 1876) was a senior officer of the Confederate States Army who was assigned to duty at Richmond, under direction of the President of the Confederate States of America, Jefferson Davis, and charged with the conduct of military operations of the armies of the Confederate States from February 24, 1864 until January 13, 1865, when he was charged with command and defense of Wilmington, North Carolina.

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Brevet (military)

In many of the world's military establishments, a brevet was a warrant giving a commissioned officer a higher rank title as a reward for gallantry or meritorious conduct but without conferring the authority, precedence, or pay of real rank.

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Brigade

A brigade is a major tactical military formation that is typically composed of three to six battalions plus supporting elements.

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Bushrod Johnson

Bushrod Rust Johnson (October 7, 1817 – September 12, 1880) was a Confederate general in the American Civil War and an officer in the United States Army.

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Captain (United States O-3)

In the United States Army (USA), U.S. Marine Corps (USMC), and U.S. Air Force (USAF), captain (abbreviated "CPT" in the USA and "Capt" in the USMC and USAF) is a company grade officer rank, with the pay grade of O-3.

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Castillo de San Marcos

The Castillo de San Marcos is the oldest masonry fort in the continental United States.

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Cavalry in the American Civil War

Cavalry in the American Civil War was a branch of army service in a process of transition for the union.

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Circa

Circa, usually abbreviated c., ca. or ca (also circ. or cca.), means "approximately" in several European languages (and as a loanword in English), usually in reference to a date.

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Coleman, Texas

Coleman is a city in and the county seat of Coleman County, Texas, in the United States.

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College Football All-Southern Team

The College Football All-Southern Team was an all-star team of college football players from the Southern United States.

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College-preparatory school

A college-preparatory school (shortened to preparatory school, prep school, or college prep) is a type of secondary school.

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Comanche

The Comanche (Nʉmʉnʉʉ) are a Native American nation from the Great Plains whose historic territory, known as Comancheria, consisted of present-day eastern New Mexico, southeastern Colorado, southwestern Kansas, western Oklahoma, and most of northwest Texas and northern Chihuahua.

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Confederate Army of the Shenandoah

The Army of the Shenandoah was an army of the Confederate States of America during the American Civil War; it was organized to defend the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia in the early months of the war.

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Confederate Heartland Offensive

The Confederate Heartland Offensive or Kentucky Campaign of the American Civil War was fought in June-October 1862, when Confederates under Generals Braxton Bragg and Edmund Kirby Smith tried to draw Kentucky into the Confederacy by outflanking Union troops under Major General Don Carlos Buell.

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Confederate States Army

The Confederate States Army (C.S.A.) was the military land force of the Confederate States of America (Confederacy) during the American Civil War (1861–1865).

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Cornelius Hankins

Cornelius Hankins (1863-1946) was an American painter.

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Corps

Corps (plural corps; via French, from the Latin corpus "body") is a term used for several different kinds of organisation.

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Cuba

Cuba, officially the Republic of Cuba, is a country comprising the island of Cuba as well as Isla de la Juventud and several minor archipelagos.

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Division (military)

A division is a large military unit or formation, usually consisting of between 10,000 and 20,000 soldiers.

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Dormitory

In United States usage, the word dormitory means a building primarily providing sleeping and residential quarters for large numbers of people, often boarding school, college or university students.

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Duval County Public Schools

Duval County Public Schools (DCPS) is the public school district that serves the families and children residing in the urban, suburban, and rural areas of the City of Jacksonville and Duval County, Florida.

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Edmund Kirby Smith (sculpture)

Edmund Kirby Smith is a bronze sculpture commemorating the United States Army officer of the same name by C. Adrian Pillars, installed in the United States Capitol Visitor Center as part of the National Statuary Hall Collection.

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Edmund Kirby Smith Hall

Edmund Kirby Smith Hall (alternatively "Kirby Smith") is an on-campus living option at the Louisiana State University.

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Ephraim Kirby-Smith

Ephraim "Eph" Kirby-Smith (August 30, 1884 – July 8, 1938) was a college football player.

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Ezra J. Warner (historian)

Ezra Joseph Warner III (July 4, 1910 – May 30, 1974) was a noted historian of the American Civil War.

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Field artillery in the American Civil War

Field artillery in the American Civil War refers to the artillery weapons, equipment, and practices used by the Artillery branch to support the infantry and cavalry forces in the field.

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First Battle of Bull Run

The First Battle of Bull Run (the name used by Union forces), also known as the First Battle of Manassas.

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Fort Brown

Fort Brown was a military post of the United States Army in Cameron County, Texas during the later half of the 19th century and the early part of the 20th century.

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Frances Kirby Smith

Frances Kirby Smith (1785–1875) was the mother of U.S. Civil War general Edmund Kirby Smith and a confederate spy who orchestrated transport of mail and military intelligence to the Confederate troops.

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Frederick Steele

Frederick Steele (January 14, 1819 – January 12, 1868) was a career military officer in the United States Army, serving as a major general in the Union Army during the American Civil War.

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Galveston, Texas

Galveston is a coastal resort city on Galveston Island and Pelican Island in the U.S. state of Texas.

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General officer

A general officer is an officer of high rank in the army, and in some nations' air forces or marines.

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General officers in the Confederate States Army

The general officers of the Confederate States Army (CSA) were the senior military leaders of the Confederacy during the American Civil War of 1861–1865.

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Guerrilla warfare

Guerrilla warfare is a form of irregular warfare in which a small group of combatants, such as paramilitary personnel, armed civilians, or irregulars, use military tactics including ambushes, sabotage, raids, petty warfare, hit-and-run tactics, and mobility to fight a larger and less-mobile traditional military.

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Hempstead, Texas

Hempstead is a city in Waller County, Texas, United States, part of the metropolitan area.

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Howard University

Howard University (HU or simply Howard) is a federally chartered, private, coeducational, nonsectarian, historically black university (HBCU) in Washington, D.C. It is categorized by the Carnegie Foundation as a research university with higher research activity and is accredited by the Middle States Commission on Higher Education.

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Jacksonville, Florida

Jacksonville is the most populous city in the U.S. state of Florida and the largest city by area in the contiguous United States.

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John George Walker

John George Walker (July 22, 1821 – July 20, 1893) was a Confederate general in the American Civil War.

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Joseph E. Johnston

Joseph Eggleston Johnston (February 3, 1807 – March 21, 1891) was a career United States Army officer, serving with distinction in the Mexican-American War (1846-1848), and Seminole Wars.

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Joseph Lee Kirby-Smith

Joseph Lee Kirby-Smith (April 16, 1882 – November 5, 1939) was a college football player and dermatologist.

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Joseph Lee Smith

Joseph Lee Smith (1776–1846) was an American lawyer, soldier, and jurist.

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Liberty ship

Liberty ships were a class of cargo ship built in the United States during World War II.

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Lieutenant colonel

Lieutenant colonel is a rank of commissioned officer in the armies, most marine forces and some air forces of the world, above a major and below a colonel.

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Lincoln University (Pennsylvania)

Lincoln University (LU) is the United States' first degree-granting historically black university.

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List of American Civil War generals (Confederate)

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Litchfield, Connecticut

Litchfield is a town in and former county seat of Litchfield County, Connecticut, United States.

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Louisiana State University

The Louisiana State University (officially Louisiana State University and Agricultural and Mechanical College, commonly referred to as LSU) is a public coeducational university located in Baton Rouge, Louisiana.

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Lucien Bonaparte Webster

Lucien Bonaparte Webster (March 17, 1801 – November 4, 1853) was a career United States Army officer from Vermont who served in the Mexican-American War and at Fort Brown in Texas.

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Lynchburg, Virginia

Lynchburg is an independent city in the Commonwealth of Virginia in the United States.

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Major

Major is a military rank of commissioned officer status, with corresponding ranks existing in many military forces throughout the world.

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Major (United States)

In the United States Army, Marine Corps, and Air Force, major is a field grade military officer rank above the rank of captain and below the rank of lieutenant colonel.

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Mexican–American War

The Mexican–American War, also known as the Mexican War in the United States and in Mexico as the American intervention in Mexico, was an armed conflict between the United States of America and the United Mexican States (Mexico) from 1846 to 1848.

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Mississippi River

The Mississippi River is the chief river of the second-largest drainage system on the North American continent, second only to the Hudson Bay drainage system.

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Multiracial

Multiracial is defined as made up of or relating to people of many races.

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Nathaniel P. Banks

Nathaniel Prentice (or Prentiss) Banks (January 30, 1816 – September 1, 1894) was an American politician from Massachusetts and a Union general during the Civil War.

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National Statuary Hall Collection

The National Statuary Hall Collection in the United States Capitol is composed of statues donated by individual states to honor persons notable in their history.

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New Castle, Kentucky

New Castle is a home rule-class city in Henry County, Kentucky, in the United States.

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New Orleans

New Orleans (. Merriam-Webster.; La Nouvelle-Orléans) is a major United States port and the largest city and metropolitan area in the state of Louisiana.

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Officer (armed forces)

An officer is a member of an armed force or uniformed service who holds a position of authority.

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P. G. T. Beauregard

Pierre Gustave Toutant-Beauregard (May 28, 1818 – February 20, 1893) was an American military officer who was the first prominent general of the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War.

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Panama City, Florida

Panama City is a city and the county seat of Bay County, Florida, United States.

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Philip Sheridan

Philip Henry Sheridan (March 6, 1831 – August 5, 1888) was a career United States Army officer and a Union general in the American Civil War.

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Pneumonia

Pneumonia is an inflammatory condition of the lung affecting primarily the small air sacs known as alveoli.

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Price's Raid

Price's Missouri Expedition, also known as Price's Raid, was a Confederate raid through the states of Missouri and Kansas in the Trans-Mississippi Theater of the American Civil War during the autumn of 1864.

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Red River Campaign

The Red River Campaign or Red River Expedition comprised a series of battles fought along the Red River in Louisiana during the American Civil War from March 10 to May 22, 1864.

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Regular army

A regular army is the official army of a state or country (the official armed forces), contrasting with irregular forces, such as volunteer irregular militias, private armies, mercenaries, etc.

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Regular Army (United States)

The Regular Army of the United States succeeded the Continental Army as the country's permanent, professional land-based military force.

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Richard Taylor (general)

Richard Scott "Dick" Taylor (January 27, 1826 – April 12, 1879) was an American planter, politician, military historian, and Confederate general.

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Richmond, Virginia

Richmond is the capital of the Commonwealth of Virginia in the United States.

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Rick Scott

Richard Lynn Scott (born December 1, 1952) is an American businessman and politician serving as the 45th and current Governor of Florida since 2011.

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Rocky Mountains

The Rocky Mountains, also known as the Rockies, are a major mountain range in western North America.

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Secession in the United States

In the context of the United States, secession primarily refers to the withdrawal of one or more States from the Union that constitutes the United States; but may loosely refer to leaving a State or territory to form a separate territory or new State, or to the severing of an area from a city or county within a State.

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Seminole

The Seminole are a Native American people originally from Florida.

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Sewanee Tigers football

The Sewanee Tigers football team represents Sewanee: The University of the South in the sport of American football.

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Sewanee, Tennessee

Sewanee is a census-designated place (CDP) in Franklin County, Tennessee, United States.

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Sewanee: The University of the South

Sewanee: The University of the South, also known as Sewanee, is a private, residential, coeducational liberal arts college located in Sewanee, Tennessee, United States.

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Shenandoah Valley

The Shenandoah Valley is a geographic valley and cultural region of western Virginia and the Eastern Panhandle of West Virginia in the United States.

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Shreveport, Louisiana

Shreveport is the third-largest city in the state of Louisiana and the 122nd-largest city in the United States.

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Siege of Port Hudson

The Siege of Port Hudson, Louisiana (May 22 – July 9, 1863), was the final engagement in the Union campaign to recapture the Mississippi in the American Civil War.

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Siege of Vicksburg

The Siege of Vicksburg (May 18 – July 4, 1863) was the final major military action in the Vicksburg Campaign of the American Civil War.

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Smithsonian Institution

The Smithsonian Institution, established on August 10, 1846 "for the increase and diffusion of knowledge," is a group of museums and research centers administered by the Government of the United States.

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Sons of Confederate Veterans

The Sons of Confederate Veterans (SCV) is an American non-profit and charitable organization of male descendants of Confederate veterans headquartered at the Elm Springs in Columbia, Tennessee.

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St. Augustine, Florida

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Sterling Price

Sterling "Old Pap" Price (September 14, 1809September 29, 1867) was an American lawyer, planter, soldier, and politician from the U.S. state of Missouri, who served as the 11th Governor of the state from 1853 to 1857.

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Texas

Texas (Texas or Tejas) is the second largest state in the United States by both area and population.

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Thanks of Congress

The Thanks of Congress is a series of formal resolutions passed by the United States Congress originally to extend the government's formal thanks for significant victories or impressive actions by American military commanders and their troops.

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The Guardian

The Guardian is a British daily newspaper.

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The Palm Beach Post

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Third Corps, Army of Tennessee

The Third Corps was a designation used by several military formations in the Army of Tennessee during the American Civil War.

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Trans-Mississippi Department

The Trans-Mississippi Department was a militarily administered subdivision of the Confederate States of America west of the Mississippi, comprising Texas, Arkansas, Missouri, Indian Territory, and parts of Arizona and Louisiana.

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Treason

In law, treason is the crime that covers some of the more extreme acts against one's nation or sovereign.

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Tuberculosis

Tuberculosis (TB) is an infectious disease usually caused by the bacterium Mycobacterium tuberculosis (MTB).

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Ulysses S. Grant

Ulysses Simpson Grant (born Hiram Ulysses Grant; April 27, 1822 – July 23, 1885) was an American soldier and statesman who served as Commanding General of the Army and the 18th President of the United States, the highest positions in the military and the government of the United States.

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United Confederate Veterans

The United Confederate Veterans was an association formed in New Orleans, Louisiana on June 10, 1889, by veterans of the Confederate States Army and Navy.

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United Daughters of the Confederacy

The United Daughters of the Confederacy (UDC) is an American hereditary association of Southern women established in 1894 in Nashville, Tennessee.

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United States

The United States of America (USA), commonly known as the United States (U.S.) or America, is a federal republic composed of 50 states, a federal district, five major self-governing territories, and various possessions.

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United States Army

The United States Army (USA) is the land warfare service branch of the United States Armed Forces.

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United States Capitol

The United States Capitol, often called the Capitol Building, is the home of the United States Congress, and the seat of the legislative branch of the U.S. federal government.

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United States Military Academy

The United States Military Academy (USMA), also known as West Point, Army, Army West Point, The Academy or simply The Point, is a four-year coeducational federal service academy located in West Point, New York, in Orange County.

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University of Nashville

The University of Nashville was an educational institution that existed as a distinct entity from 1826 until 1909.

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Vanderbilt University

Vanderbilt University (informally Vandy) is a private research university in Nashville, Tennessee.

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Virginia

Virginia (officially the Commonwealth of Virginia) is a state in the Southeastern and Mid-Atlantic regions of the United States located between the Atlantic Coast and the Appalachian Mountains.

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Walker's Greyhounds

Walker's Greyhounds, also known as Walker's Texas Division, was a division of the Confederate States Army composed exclusively of units from Texas.

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Winfield Scott

Winfield Scott (June 13, 1786 – May 29, 1866) was a United States Army general and the unsuccessful presidential candidate of the Whig Party in 1852.

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Yellow fever

Yellow fever is a viral disease of typically short duration.

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Zachary Taylor

Zachary Taylor (November 24, 1784 – July 9, 1850) was the 12th President of the United States, serving from March 1849 until his death in July 1850.

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1899 Sewanee Tigers football team

The 1899 Sewanee Tigers football team represented Sewanee: The University of the South in the 1899 Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association football season.

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2nd Cavalry Regiment (United States)

The 2nd Cavalry Regiment, also known as the 2nd Dragoons, is an active Stryker infantry and cavalry regiment of the United States Army.

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5th Infantry Regiment (United States)

The 5th Infantry Regiment (nicknamed the "Bobcats") is an infantry regiment of the United States Army that traces its origins to 1808.

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7th Infantry Regiment (United States)

The 7th Infantry Regiment is an infantry regiment in the United States Army.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edmund_Kirby_Smith

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