Edmund Kirby (March 11, 1840 – May 28, 1863) was a United States Army artillery officer who was mortally wounded at the Battle of Chancellorsville.

[1][2][3][4][5] Kirby's uncle, Nathan W. Brown, served as Paymaster-General of the United States Army.

[6][7] Kirby was a member of the United States Military Academy Class of May 6, 1861 (the first of two West Point classes graduated in that year, which also included notable members Henry A. du Pont, Orville Babcock, Adelbert Ames, Emory Upton, and Judson Kilpatrick), graduating shortly after the outbreak of the Civil War.

[2] Kirby was absent on sick leave during most of September 1862, missing the Battle of Antietam (during which time Battery I, 1st U.S.

[1][2][3][9] Kirby was promoted to the rank of brigadier general of United States Volunteers by President Abraham Lincoln on May 28, 1863.