Segui-Kirby Smith House

In 1863, the Union occupiers of St. Augustine banished Edmund's mother, Frances Kirby Smith, from the city on suspicion of spying for the Confederacy.

[3] Alexander Darnes, the son of the enslaved woman Violet Pinkney, also lived in the house.

In 1855, Darnes left St. Augustine to serve as valet to Edmund Kirby Smith during his military service in the Western Territories and throughout the Civil War.

After the South lost the war, Darnes went on to earn a medical degree in 1880 at Howard University, moved back to Florida, and became one of the first African American doctors in the state.

[4] Maria Kirby-Smith, great-granddaughter of Edmund Kirby Smith, completed a bronze statue of the general and of Darnes titled "Sons of St. Augustine" in 2004.

[5] The house and its outbuildings are used by the St. Augustine Historical Society to serve as the location for its research library, archives, and collection storage.