CHARLEWS WEBSTER KIMBALL

Charles Webster Kimball was born November 29, 1840, at Bradford, Massachusetts. He received his preparatory education at Phillips Academy, Andover, Massachusetts, and entered our class the first day of our Freshman year, and left us the last day of the same year, in the Summer of 1861.

He went to Haverhill, Massachusetts, the last week in August, 1861, and enlisted as a private in Company H, Twenty-second Regiment, Massachusetts Volunteers. This regiment was one of two -- the Twenty-second and Twenty-third -- raised by Hon. Henry Wilson, then United States Senator from Massachusetts. After remaining in camp at Lynnfield, Massachusetts, about six weeks, they went to Washington, D. C., in October, 1861, under the command of Colonel Henry Wilson. They went immediately to Virginia, being assigned to the First Brigade, First Division, Fifth Army Corps, commanded by General Fitz John Porter. In March, 1862, his regiment participated in the advance on the "Quaker Guns" of Manassas, and then went to the Peninsular under General George B. McClellan, landing at Fortress Monroe just after the fight between the Monitor and the Merrimac. He was also present at the siege of Yorktown in April, 1862. He then took part in the demonstration at Hanover Court House, which was made while the great battle was going on at Fair Oaks. In the seven days' battle, he took part in that at Mechanicsville on June 28, the Chickahominy on June 29, where his regiment lost three hundred men, including Colonel Gove and most of the other officers, and at Malvern Hill on July 3, -- the last of a desperate series of battles. When the Army of the Potomac left the Peninsular in August, 1862, to reinforce General Pope at Bull Run, he went with his regiment as far as Fredericksburg, where he was compelled to leave it, being sick with swamp fever and chronic diarrhoea. He was discharged for general debility at Baltimore, Maryland, on March 24, 1863.

Owing to continued ill health, he was unable to resume his studies, as he was very desirous of doing. On March 10, 1864, he sailed from Boston, Massachusetts, for Louisiana, where he remained until June, 1865. While there, he had six months' experience on a large sugar and cotton plantation, and also taught a colored school for six months, under the United States Bureau of Education. He removed to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, in 1869, where he was engaged in the shoe and leather business for nine years. In 1878 he made a change to the furniture business, in which he continued until March, 1883, when he removed to South Vineland, New Jersey, and bought a small farm, where he is at present engaged in general farming, fruit and poultry raising.

In his religious preferences, he is liberal. In politics, he is an Independent Republican.

He was married October 17, 1878, to Miss Elizabeth A. Wells, of Salem, Massachusetts. They have no children.

Source: "Memorialia of the Class of '64 in Dartmouth College" complied by John C. Webster, Shepard & Johnston, Printers, 1884, Chicago

Submitted by Deborah Crowell