Kirby-Smith

American  

[kur-bee-smith] / ˈkɜr biˈsmɪθ /

noun

1. Edmund, 1824–93, Confederate general in the American Civil War.

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Example Sentences

He also met his future wife, Selden Kirby-Smith, with whom he had two children before they divorced in 1976.

From Washington Post

“I was never on the road with them,” he said, noting that he was living “a respectable married life” after marrying Selden Kirby-Smith in 1951.

From Seattle Times

Returning to the U.S. in 1950, he settled in San Francisco, where he rented an apartment with Selden Kirby-Smith, a Swarthmore and Columbia graduate he had met on a steamship from New York to Paris.

From Los Angeles Times

People walked slowly, kept to the shade of the great spreading oaks beneath which Edmund Kirby-Smith's rebel troops had marched in '64.

From Time Magazine Archive