Charles Henry Kimball

In 1860 he was a 28 year old shoemaker in Bradford, MA. He enlisted on 26 June 1861 as a Private in Company I, 12th Massachusetts Infantry.

He was mortally wounded by a gunshot to his head which fractured his frontal bone in action at Antietam on 17 September 1862.

He was treated at a field hospital then admitted to the Newton University Hospital in Baltimore on 20 September. Surgeon C.W. Jones removed pieces of bone on the 23rd and afterward Kimball "conversed coherently, his breathing was easy and natural." He later worsened and became "depressed, dull, and slightly comotose. Convulsions shortly after ensued" and he died of his wound on 3 October 1862.

His service basics from the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.1 Wound and hospital details from the MSHWR. 2 Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1860. His gravesite is on Findagrave.

He married Ann Eliza Harmon (1834-1908) in March 1851 and they had 3 children.

03/30/1832; Haverhill, MA

10/03/1862; Baltimore, MD; burial in Elmwood Cemetery, Bradford, MA