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J.A. Kimbrough
(1828 - 1862)
Home State: Alabama
Branch of Service: Infantry
Unit: 6th Alabama Infantry
Before Sharpsburg
He enlisted as Private in Company C (renamed I), 6th Alabama Infantry on 20 April 1861. He was appointed 3rd Lieutenant immediately, and 2nd Lieutenant on 23 April. He was elected Captain at the reorganization on 27 April 1862.
On the Campaign
He was killed in action in the Sunken Road at Sharpsburg on 17 September 1862.
References & notes
Basic information from State of Alabama1 and from roster data as compiled by James D. Allen on his Regimental site. His picture from an ambrotype published in Ben H. Severence's Portraits of Conflict: A Photographic History of Alabama in the Civil War (2012), original courtesy of David Wynn Vaughan. Details from family genealogists. First name also seen as Joshua. His wife Mary Elizabeth (Godbold) Kimbrough had died in November 1859.
Birth
08/28/1828 in NC
Death
09/17/1862; Sharpsburg, MD
1 State of Alabama, Dept. of Archives & History, Alabama Civil War Service Database, Published 2004, first accessed 01 January 2010, <https://archives.alabama.gov/research/CivilWarService.aspx>, Source page: various [AotW citation 15797]