People's Pilot, Volume 2, Number 41, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 March 1893 — HIS LIFE ENDS. [ARTICLE]

HIS LIFE ENDS.

Death of Gen. Kirby Smith, the Famous Confederate Soldier. Nashville, Tenn., March 29.—A special from Sewanee, Tenn., to the American says: Gen. E. Kirby Smith, professor of mathematics in the University of the South since 1875, died here Tuesday afternoon at 3:25 o’clock. For two years his health has been declining., ClGen. Kirby Smith was born in St Augustiue, Fla., March 16, 1884, and was therefore in the 69th year of his age. With him closes the list of full generals on both sides during the late war, his commission as full general in the confederate service having been issued February 19,1864.