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Federal (USV)

Private

John C. Kimball

(c. 1837 - ?)

Home State: Pennsylvania

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 90th Pennsylvania Infantry

Before Antietam

Age 24, he enlisted and mustered into service as a Private in Company G, 91st Pennsylvania Infantry on 17 September 1861 in Philadelphia and transferred to Company G of the 90th Infantry, date not known.

On the Campaign

He was wounded in the head in action at Antietam on 17 September 1862.

The rest of the War

He was listed as "not accounted for" on the Company G muster-out roll.

References & notes

His service from the Card File 1 and Bates.2 Wound detail from Nelson.3 He's also seen as John O. Kimball.

Birth

c. 1837

Notes

1   Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Adjutant-General, Pennsylvania Civil War Veterans' Card File, 1861-1866, Published <2005, first accessed 01 July 2005, <http://www.digitalarchives.state.pa.us/archive.asp?view=ArchiveIndexes&ArchiveID=17>  [AotW citation 23527]

2   Bates, Samuel Penniman, History of the Pennsylvania Volunteers, 1861-65, Harrisburg: State of Pennsylvania, 1868-1871  [AotW citation 23528]

3   Nelson, John H., As Grain Falls Before the Reaper: The Federal Hospital Sites and Identified Federal Casualties at Antietam, Hagerstown: John H. Nelson, 2004, pg. 275  [AotW citation 23529]