Gen. E. Kirby Smith Residence

For two years this house stood inside a country in all but name. After Vicksburg and Port Hudson closed the Mississippi, Kirby Smith's Trans-Mississippi Department was cut off from Richmond and ran almost on its own, which earned it the nickname Kirby Smithdom. He negotiated its surrender on May 26, 1865 and signed terms at Galveston on June 2, the last Confederate full general to give up. He fled to Mexico and Cuba, worked in telegraph companies and schools, and taught mathematics and botany at Sewanee from 1875 until 1893.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Spring Street Museum — 0.5 mi
  An 1866 bank building downtown that also held a Freedman's Savings and Trust branch in 1870, now a free LSUS-run museum with a Victorian parlor and the original vault.
• Shreveport Municipal Auditorium — 0.7 mi
  The Art Deco hall of 1929 where the Louisiana Hayride went out over KWKH from 1948 to 1960 and where Elvis Presley first played Shreveport on October 16, 1954.
• Shreveport Water Works Museum — 0.9 mi
  An 1887 brick pumping station on McNeill Street where Worthington steam pumps ran until 1980, now a free museum and a National Historic Landmark.
• Louisiana State Exhibit Museum — 3.3 mi
  A circular Art Deco museum of 1939 on the Shreveport fairgrounds, with a 1,000-year-old Caddo log boat, rotunda murals and dioramas of early Caddo Parish.

More markers nearby

• Henry Watkins Allen / Battery 10 — steps away
• Central Station — 0.3 mi
• Cane & Bennett's Trading Post — 0.3 mi
• First City Market — 0.3 mi