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(1828 - 1901)
Home State: Massachusetts
Branch of Service: Infantry
Before Antietam
From Hartford, he enlisted as a Sergeant in Company G, 16th Connecticut Infantry on 29 July 1862.
On the Campaign
He was wounded in action at Antietam on 17 September 1862.
The rest of the War
He was reduced to Private while sick on 6 March 1863 and transferred to Company F, 3rd Regiment, Veteran Reserve Corps on 20 July 1863. He was discharged on 6 July 1865.
After the War
In 1880 he was a jeweler in Lewiston, ME, but by June 1900 was back in Oxford, MA, a watchmaker, living with his son George. He was listed as a mechanic at the time of his death in Oxford, MA of peritonitis at age 72 in January 1901.
References & notes
His service from the Record.1 Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1880 and 1900. His gravesite is on Findagrave.
He married Hannah Maria Phillips (1834-1920) in July 1851 in Worcester, MA, but they divorced. He married again, Mary Ellen "Nellie" Bailey (1848-1898) in March 1869 in Lewiston, ME. They had a son, George Edwin Kimball (1880-1929).
Birth
07/01/1828; Oxford, MA
Death
01/25/1901; Oxford, MA; burial in South Cemetery, Oxford, MA
1 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, pg. 631 [AotW citation 27206]