Edmund Kirby Smith

ID: 959
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Major General Edmund Kirby Smith (1824-1893) C.S.A.; general of final major Confederate force to surrender, 1865. Was in Frankfort in 1862 for the inauguration of the provisional Confederate governor, Richard Hawes.
Photo courtesy of the University of Kentucky.

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By Becky Riddle
Historical Marker #522 commemorates the Confederate occupation of Frankfort in September 1862. That summer, multiple Confederate armies invaded Kentucky in order to pull Union troops away from the…