Confederate Lieutenant General Edmund Kirby Smith
The statue of the Confederate General pictured above is that of Edmund Kirby Smith of Florida, and was given to the National Statuary Hall Collection by Florida in 1922. The U.S. House of Representatives voted June 29th to remove it and other statues of Confederate leaders.
This photo was the lead image in our July 6, 2021, article about statues to Confederate Generals being removed from Statuary hall in the US Capitol building. At that time we asked for you to identify the General in the comments section. The statue is the likeness of Confederate General Edmund Kirby Smith.
The description by The Architect of the Capitol says:
Edmund Kirby Smith, soldier and educator, was born on May 16, 1824, in St. Augustine, Florida, where his father was a lawyer and a judge. Graduating from the United States Military Academy in 1845, he served in the Mexican War under General Zachary Taylor and General Winfield Scott and was brevetted for gallantry. After the war he taught mathematics at the Military Academy and served in the cavalry on the frontier. His botany reports, written while accompanying the Mexican Boundary Commission, were published by the Smithsonian Institution.
In 1861, Smith resigned from the army to join the Confederate forces. He was commissioned colonel of the cavalry and rose to the rank of general. He served as chief of staff to General Joseph E. Johnston at Harper’s Ferry and helped organize the Army of the Shenandoah. While commanding a brigade in the army, he was severely wounded at Manassas. From 1863 until the end of the war he commanded the Trans-Mississippi department. He surrendered the last military force of the Confederacy.
After the war he considered, but abandoned, a plan to settle in Mexico. He was president of the Atlantic and Pacific Telegraph Company, chancellor of the University of Nashville from 1870 to 1875, and professor of mathematics at the University of the South in Sewanee, Tennessee. He died on March 28, 1893, at Sewanee, the last surviving full general of either army.
The ultimate plan of those Marxists and Communists who want to overthrow the United States of America is to diminish and discredit the role of brilliant and brave men with courage and conviction who served to build our country. To accomplish their mission they must indoctrinate the multitudes of people wo are ignorant of history or who are gullible enough to believe their propaganda. Thus they seek to gain positions of influence as teachers, professors, educators, politicians, pastors, etc., at every level.
Unless brave men and women with that same bravery and courage of conviction stand up and speak against “cancel culture” we, our children and grandchildren may suffer the fate of those who didn’t stand against the Marxists and Communists—Bolsheviks in other countries! That is torture and death of the most horrible kind imaginable! Research the horrible torture by the Bolsheviks and if you need a reason to stand against them then you’ll see it! Thomas Jefferson said often that ‘Americans cannot expect to be free while remaining ignorant’! Indeed we cannot!
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