Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1916-01-06

short time afterwards in the fight at st.
Petersburg and that finished me for the
war. ! was in the hospital at Washing
ton when Lee surrendsed and was just
able 70 march with the boys when Abe
Lincoln was lying in State after the as
sasSjnation.
And This was the end of the war record
Of Andrew }. kimball. 60. .. 1tll Maine
! Regiment. Is related 10 kennebec
Journal reporter II the parlCr of the New
CITY hotel in Augusta. Mr. kin1ball Is
visiting the Capital o. his native state
this week ard most every Gay goes TO
Togus TO pass the hours IN conversation
with rs brother. samuel J.. kimban, ~
81 wears. whom liz had not seen for IL
years ~, 70 the time he dropped into
the hospital a To@u: and introduce
himself. lie came all the way from Rose
bud cCi-i!t:. Montana. to find his brDti:e
and a sister. Mrs. Cynthia i. Towns of
Lisbon Falls This @qGg-nie trip is the
only trip East since his settling in Non
tana v.ith the exception of his trip to
Gettysburg IL 1919 when he attended the
great reunion there. AT that time .co,
ne AID Mrs. kinlball visited many pctats
Bay.
A. j. kImball, native Of Patten. Maine,
is a years Of age. For the first IS years
Of h.s life he lived upon his father 5
farm in Patten and in 1861 at the age Of
y he enlisted with his brother. Samuel
L.. IN the famous 9Th Maine Regiment
which had one Of the most brllian. and
heroic records of the Civil War. Mr.
kimball says he hears Of but one man
II Patten whom he used to know and he
is Ira Gardner, father Of Hon. Halbert
+. Gardner.
The trst grand fight he was in, Mr..
h!nlbali says. was that of Williamsburg
and the next and one of the greatest
struggles of me war was Antietam. Into
/, thdt great struggle of arms the 18th
Maine plunged with 800 men and IS Off
| GERS; il came off the scene with 60 y-1er
and four officers. Following that battle
] the regiment was sent TO Portland &c
! recruit up and went back into the
| lighting again in time for Chancellors.
/ VILE. The 18th Maine was directed &c
/ charge Fredericksburg Heights ard this
! they did and far too well. for they car.
| ried them and at dawn next day discov.
! ahead Of the main federal forces AMI
were almost surrounded. Many were
| taken prisoners and many killed in max.
I ihg the escape but the ma jority Joined
! the main army forthwith. there was nc
surrender
| From this last named scene Mr.. Kim.
! balls corps went to Gettysburg and ar
! rived on the second day of the battle
! after 2i-hours' tramp Of Ii nlilez The
! regiment was on the extreme right a,
! fetttsbure, said the veteran, land we
| didn't get ii very hard We los. only
! iiFe men" The Battle Of the Wilder.
I ness was the 9Th Maines next inportan,
| engagement In this battle Mr.. Kinda,
was wounded in the thigh. This was his
second wound, having been wounde
Sishtly in previous battle. In all, he
! was wounded five times within the De.
| Rod Of his service to the Union. Afte,
this battle in the wilderness the 7,h
Maine went to a different field Of opera
ions and aided in making trouble fol
| Gen. Early at Fort Stevens Mr. Kim.
, ball remembers tina; in the course of the
! engagement at Fort Stevens presiten,
| Lincoln stood upon the works exposed ;e
| "diiseF aHG 1t phESlclan standing be:id;
him Was wounded in the leg by a rtl.
! bullet. Recently Mr. kimball met a ma.
in the West who was standing on the
| works with President Lincoln and. OF
| course, remembered the incident.
! The war oyer, Mr.. Kimban came tr
Maine for short rest and then wen;
into the lumber woods of Pennsylvania
| for a few years. Then" said Mr.. Kim.
i bali in his interview with the renorter