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Federal (USV)

Corporal

Andrew Johnson Kimball

(1836 - 1862)

Home State: Connecticut

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 8th Connecticut Infantry

Before Antietam

In 1860 he was a 23 year old gold pen maker at Brooklyn, Windham County, CT. He enlisted on 3 September 1861 and mustered as a Private in Company F, 8th Connecticut Infantry on 23 September. He was promoted to Corporal on 1 March 1862.

On the Campaign

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

The rest of the War

He died of his wound at the Crystal Spring field hospital on the Geeting farm near Keedysville, MD on 16 November 1862.

After the War

He was reinterred from his original burial on the Geeting farm to the new National Cemetery in about 1867.

References & notes

Basic casualty information from Banks1 His service from the Record of Service.2 Burial information from the Cemetery History,3 which has his death on 19 November. Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1860. His gravesite is on Findagrave.

He married Nancy Jane Cheney (1835-) and they had a daughter Nellie (1859-1933).

Birth

09/25/1836; Brooklyn, CT

Death

11/16/1862; Keedysville, MD; burial in Antietam National Cemetery, Sharpsburg, MD

Notes

1 Banks, John, Connecticut Antietam Death List, Connecticut: self-published, 2013 [AotW citation 12542]

2 State of Connecticut, Adjutant General's Office, and AGs Smith, Camp, and Barbour, and AAG White, Record of Service of Connecticut Men in the Army and Navy of the United States during the War of the Rebellion, Hartford: Press of the Case, Lockwood, and Brainard Company, 1889, p. 345 [AotW citation 30642]

3 Antietam National Cemetery, Board of Trustees, History of Antietam National Cemetery, Baltimore: John W. Woods, Steam Printer, 1869, p. 59 [AotW citation 30643]

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