Augustus Day Kimball (1831 - 1902)

Born 10 Apr 1831 in Warsaw, Genesee, New York, United States

Ancestors

Husband of Frances Pointon — married 1865 in Sauk, Wisconsin, United States

Died 2 Dec 1902 at age 71 in Sauk, Wisconsin, United States

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Biography

Augustus was born in 1831. He was the son of Chauncey Kimball and Mary Fargo. He passed away in 1902.

Sources

• 1850 United States Federal Census; Year: 1850; Census Place: Boston, Erie, New York; Roll: M432_500; Page: 19; Image: 37.

Birth date: abt 1831 Birth place: New York Residence date: 1850 Residence place: Boston, Erie, New York. Augustus Kimbol 19 http://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?db=1850usfedcenancestry&h=11752190&ti=0&indiv=try&gss=pt

1860 United States Federal Census; Year: 1860; Census Place: Greenfield, Sauk, Wisconsin; Roll: M653_1429; Page: 612; Image: 175. Birth date: abt 1833 Birth place: New York Residence date: 1860 Residence place: Greenfield, Sauk, Wisconsin. http://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?db=1860usfedcenancestry&h=36389778&ti=0&indiv=try&gss=pt

1870 United States Federal Census; Year: 1870; Census Place: Greenfield, Sauk, Wisconsin; Roll: M593_1739; Page: 102; Image: 207. http://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?db=1870usfedcen&h=11637416&ti=0&indiv=try&gss=pt

1880 United States Federal Census; Year: 1880; Census Place: Greenfield, Sauk, Wisconsin; Roll: T9_1446; Family History Film: 1255446; Page: 121.1000; Enumeration District: ; Image: .http://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?db=1880usfedcen&h=29032914&ti=0&indiv=try&gss=pt

1900 United States Federal Census; Year: 1900; Census Place: Baraboo Ward 2, Sauk, Wisconsin; Roll: T623_1816; Page: 13A; Enumeration District: 126. Birth date: Apr 1830 Birth place: New York Marriage date: 1865 Marriage place: Residence date: 1900 Residence place: Baraboo City, Sauk, Wisconsin. http://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?db=1900usfedcen&h=73940017&ti=0&indiv=try&gss=pt

American Civil War Soldiers; Historical Data Systems, comp. Side served: Union; State served: Wisconsin; Enlistment date: 1 Mar 1862. Residence date: Residence place: Baraboo, Wisconsin http://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?db=hdssoldiers&h=4943822&ti=0&indiv=try&gss=pt

Civil War Pension Index: General Index to Pension Files, 1861-1934; National Archives and Records Administration; Name:Augustus D Kimball; Gender:Male; Unit E 1 Wis. Inf.; F. 3 Wis. Cavalry; Filing Date: 26 Feb 1880; Place Filed: Wisconsin, USA; Relation to Head Soldier: Spouse: Frances Kimball; Roll number 260

Wisconsin Historical Society, Names of ex-Soldiers adn Sailors Residing in Wiscosin, 1885, p. 186 https://content.wisconsinhistory.org/digital/collection/tp/id/24245

Find-A-Grave Memorial ID 67760934; Walnutt Hill Cemetery, Baraboo, Sauk, Wisconsin. https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/67760934/kim

Research Notes

The Baraboo Link to the Civil War Battles of Shiloh, Corinth, and Iuka A paper presented to the Baraboo Fortnightly Literary Club April 1, 2008 By Jerry Bullard

The Baraboo Link to the Civil War Battles of Shiloh, Corinth, and Iuka A paper presented to the Baraboo Fortnightly Literary Club April 1, 2008 By Jerry Bullard

Abstract In April, 1861, after the outbreak of the Civil War, a call went out to the governors of the Northern states to provide volunteers to fight to preserve the Union. Wisconsin responded immediately with a Regiment, but it soon became obvious that the war would not be won quickly, and more volunteers were needed. In the fall of 1861, thirty men from the Baraboo area traveled to Mazomanie to join a company forming there. When the company had assembled the required number of men, it traveled to Camp Wood, Fond du Lac, for outfitting and training, and subsequently became Company K of the 14th Regiment Infantry, Wisconsin Volunteers. The Baraboo men of Company K appointed a correspondent to report their experiences to the Baraboo Republic editor, Ansel N. Kellogg. The correspondent supplied Kellogg with detailed descriptions of the group’s trip from Baraboo to Mazomanie, camp life and the election of officers at Mazomanie, camp life in Fond du Lac, the transfer to St. Louis, MO, and Savannah, TN, and the fighting in three terrible battles in 1862. From April to early October, 1862, three battles were fought in and around Corinth, MS for control of two vital Confederate Railroads, the Mobile and Ohio which connected Columbus, KY, on the Ohio River with Mobile, AL, on the Gulf of Mexico, and the Memphis and Charleston, which connected Memphis, TN, on the Mississippi River, via Chattanooga, TN, with the Confederate capitol in Richmond, VA. The first of the battles was fought around a small Methodist meeting house called Shiloh, near Pittsburg Landing, TN, on the Tennessee River, twenty miles north northeast of Corinth. That battle was the bloodiest conflict in American history at the time. There were more than 30,000 total casualties suffered in the two-day battle, and not an inch of ground was gained by either side. Company K’s baptism by fire came at Shiloh on April 7, 1862, when they helped capture a Confederate gun battery. The intensity of the battle is clear in the correspondent’s account to the Republic: “We lay there until the rebels advanced on us and opened fire with their small arms, then we arose and replied, and after firing a few rounds charged with fixed bayonets. This was too much for the rebels, who broke ranks and fled leaving hundreds of dead and wounded on the ground”. Nearly two months after Shiloh, 125,000 US troops, including Company K, moved to attack Corinth, MS, 20 miles south southwest of Shiloh and 20 miles west of Iuka, MS. The outnumbered Confederate commander, Gen. P. G. T. Beauregard, decided to withdraw south about 50 miles to Tupelo, MS. The two sides fought minor skirmishes in the area around Corinth until the Battle of Iuka on September, 19, 1862, and the definitive Battle of Corinth on October 3 and 4, 1862. The defeat of the Confederate forces at Corinth gave control of the Confederacy’s main east – west railroad and its only north – south railroad in the Western Theater to the Union Army. Of the 30 men of Company K from Sauk County, more than 25 were from Baraboo and the surrounding towns. By the end of 1862, seven of them had been discharged with disabilities, four had died in camp of disease, two had been taken prisoner, four had been wounded in battle, and three had been killed in action or died of wounds suffered in action. Only one of the dead made it home to Baraboo. He is buried in Walnut Hill Cemetery.

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Preface When I began this paper, I intended to describe the battles of Shiloh, Corinth, and Iuka from the perspective of one who grew up in the area where these battles were fought. I grew up 12 miles south of the city of Corinth, MS, 30 miles or so from Shiloh National Military Park, 20 or so miles from the city of Iuka, and spent many Sunday afternoons driving and walking through the Park at Shiloh. Several of the minor battles or skirmishes which preceded the Siege and Battle of Corinth, and the Battle of Iuka occurred in my back yard, so to speak. There were skirmishes in Rienzi, MS, my home town, and in and around the nearby village of Jacinto. As I began my research, I remembered that my wife and I had visited Shiloh National Military Park in the summer of 2001. While there, I took several snapshots of the park; the subject of one of the snapshots was a plaque listing the men from the 14th Wisconsin Infantry who were killed in the battle or died from wounds suffered in the battle. There are 27 names on the plaque. I began to wonder where these men came from and how they ended up at Shiloh. I was able to find them all in the Roster of Wisconsin Volunteers, War of the Rebellion, 1861-1865, available online at the Wisconsin Historical Society website. To my surprise, one of the young men named on the plaque was from Baraboo. My attention was, for a while, deflected from researching the battles to researching the history of Company K, 14th Regiment Infantry, Wisconsin Volunteers, of which the young man from Baraboo was a member. I later found that he was one of thirty or so volunteers from Baraboo and the surrounding area who were part of Co. K. During the search, I became familiar with the amazing resources of the Wisconsin Historical Society, the Sauk County Historical Society, and the public libraries in Baraboo and Reedsburg. Using those resources, and being guided by the excellent staff of the SCHS and the Baraboo library, I found my men, and have been able to trace much of their involvement in the three battles. My paper will tell much of the battle story through the experiences of these local men of Co. K as reported by their letters to, and published in, the Baraboo Republic. I have transcribed the letters verbatim from the microfilm copies of the newspaper at the Baraboo Public Library, and included them in the paper unedited. The battle descriptions are taken largely verbatim from the Civil War Sites Advisory Commission Battle Summaries provided on the National Park Service website. Other descriptive material came from lesson plans provided by the Teaching with Historic Places project, also available at the National Park Service website.

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Wisconsin Memorial at Shiloh National Military Park, July 6, 2001, JDB

14th Wisconsin Plaque at Shiloh National Military Park, July 6, 2001, JDB

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Troop Positions near Corinth, Ms, ca.1862, from the Library of Congress

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The Seeds of War; the Beginning

Slavery had been a divisive, polarizing issue in the United States since colonial days. An uneasy but seemingly satisfactory method of tolerating it had evolved over the years, with some states allowing slavery and some states not. The fabric of this arrangement began to unravel with the founding of the Republican Party in 1854, and was completely undone by the election of Abraham Lincoln as president in 1860. The southern states viewed the election of Mr. Lincoln and the dominance of his party as a dire and direct threat to the survival of slavery. Mr. Lincoln had made his views on the slavery question crystal clear in his “house divided” speech, given in June of 1858 upon accepting his party’s nomination as candidate for Illinois’ US senatorship. Although he was defeated by Stephen A. Douglas, the speech rallied Republicans across the North. It provided the South with further proof that a dominant Republican influence in Federal government would mean the end of slavery and, therefore, it was a direct threat to the economy and, indeed, the culture of the South. South Carolina seceded immediately after the election result was known. Six more Deep South cotton states followed shortly thereafter. The states of South Carolina, Mississippi, Florida, Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana, and Texas formed the Confederate States of America in February of 1861, with Jefferson Davis as President and Montgomery, Alabama, as the capitol. The Confederates demanded the surrender of federal forts and other federal property, and took control of them with little resistance from outgoing US President James Buchanan. Mr. Lincoln