Col. Joseph Lee Kirby Smith, USA

Ephraim Kirby's son, Joseph Lee Kirby Smith, soldier, born in New York city in 1836; died at Corinth, Mississippi October 12 1862, was graduated at the United States Military Academy in 1857, served as Assistant Topographical Engineer in the office of the Mississippi Delta Survey in Washington, D.C., in 1857 to 1858, on the Utah expedition, the survey of the northern lakes in 1859 to 1861 and then became 1st Lieutenant of topographical engineers. During the Civil War he served on General Nathaniel P. Banks's staff in July and August 1861, received the brevet of Captain, United States Army, in the latter month for gallant and meritorious service in the Shenandoah Valley, Virginia, became Colonel of the 43d Ohio volunteers in September and was in command of a brigade of the Army of the Mississippi in the capture of New Madrid, Missouri in March 1862. He was brevetted Major, United States Army, for the capture of Island No. 10 April 7, 1862, served on the expedition to Fort Pillow, fought at the siege of Corinth in May of that year, and was brevetted Lieutenant-Colonel in the United States Army for repelling a Confederate sortie from that city. He was in command of a regiment in operations in northern Mississippi in September and October, was engaged at the battle of Iuka and mortally wounded at Corinth October 4, while charging front forward to repel a desperate attack on Battery Robinett. For this service he was brevetted Colonel in the regular army, his commission dating October 4, 1862.

Source: Appleton's Encyclopedia