George Kimball

He began his newspaper printing career at age 16 on the Biddeford (ME) Journal. In 1860 he was a 19 year old clerk living with his parents and 2 younger siblings in Saco, ME, but he moved to Boston later that year and was a printer at the Boston Post. He enlisted and mustered at Fort Warren on 25 June 1861 as a Private in Company A, 12th Massachusetts Infantry.

He was with his company in action at Antietam on 17 September 1862.

He was promoted to Corporal on 1 November and was wounded in the leg at Fredericksburg, VA on 13 December 1862. He was at the Lovell Hospital in Portsmouth Grove, RI until returned to his company on 11 May 1863, but was wounded again, at Gettysburg, PA on 1 July. He was treated at the First Division hospital in Alexandria, VA then the US Army General Hospital at Fort Schuyler, NY until 10 December 1863, when he was back on duty. He mustered out on 8 July 1864 in Boston.

He was a printer and proofreader at the Boston Journal for more than 40 years, to 1906, then served a two year term as a clerk in the Massachusetts State House. He wrote extensively about his war experiences for the Journal and in the Century and other local and national publications, was active in the Twelfth Regiment Association from its founding in 1869, and was an officer of the Grand Army of the Republic.

His service from the Commonwealth of Massachusetts1 and his Compiled Service Records, 2online from fold3. His presence at Antietam and other details from his own writings, published in A Corporal's Story: Civil War Recollections of the Twelfth Massachusetts (University of Oklahoma Press, 2014), Alan D. Gaff and Donald H. Gaff, editors. His gravesite is on Findagrave.

He married Martha Caroline Stevens (1841-1932) in 1865 and they had 3 children.

His brother William Lewis Kimball (1837-1868) was also at Antietam, and George witnessed his wounding there.

08/08/1840; Saco, ME

02/10/1916; Lexington, MA; burial in Munroe Cemetery, Lexington, MA