Collection Information
Biographical Sketch
Scope and Content Note
Cataloging Information
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by
Charles Latham
27 December 1994
Updated 11 May 2004
Manuscript and Visual Collections Department
William Henry Smith Memorial Library
Indiana Historical Society
450 West Ohio Street
Indianapolis, IN 46202-3269
VOLUME OF COLLECTION: 3 items
COLLECTION DATES: 1862-1885
PROVENANCE: Walter R. Benjamin, 790 Madison Avenue, New York City, October 1963; Ad's Autographs, P. O. Box 8006, Webster, N. Y., 14580, 26 November 1994
RESTRICTIONS: None
REPRODUCTION RIGHTS: Permission to reproduce or publish material in this collection must be obtained in writing from the Indiana Historical Society
ALTERNATE FORMATS: None
OTHER FINDING AIDS: None
RELATED HOLDINGS: M 0567 Abraham Lincoln (letter of NK to Lincoln 10-13-1862, countersigned by Lincoln) M 0098 William H. English (portrait)
Photos of NK's gun in picture file-- Indiana--Civil War (1968.1107)
ACCESSION NUMBERS: 1963.1009, 1995.0081
NOTE: Letters of 1862 and 1885 given in memory of D. Laurance Chambers by John J. Weldon and Mr. and Mrs. W. Richardson Sinclair
Nathan Kimball (1822-1898) was born in Fredericksburg, Washington County, Indiana. He attended Washington County Seminary and Indiana Asbury University. He then studied medicine at the University of Louisville Medical School in 1864.
Kimball moved to Missouri in 1840, but had returned to Indiana by 1847. In 1846-1847 he served with the Second Regiment of Indiana Volunteers during the Mexican War.
At the outbreak of the Civil War, Kimball was appointed colonel of the 14th Indiana Volunteer Regiment. Under his command the regiment served in Virginia. During the war Kimball was promoted to brigadier general and then to major general. In June 1863 he reported to Grant at Vicksburg; he afterward served in Arkansas.
Kimball was Indiana state treasurer from 1867 to 1871, and served in the Indiana General Assembly in 1873, from Marion County. In 1874 he moved to Utah, where he was U. S. Surveyor for the Territory (1874-1878) and then postmaster of Ogden (1879-1883). He died in Ogden.
Sources: Biographical Directory of Indiana General Assembly, Vol. I
Materials in collection
This collection contains three letters written by Kimball, dated 1862-1885:
4-20-1862 NK, Shenandoah Valley, to Laz Noble, Adjutant General.
Asks for prompt filling of regimental vacancies with qualified personnel. Makes
recommendations for top positions. NK is still in command of Shields's
division. ALS 3p
12-9-1869 NK, State Treasurer, Indianapolis, to Colonel [?].
Please make sure that Gen. Rosecrans comes to Indianapolis (from Cincinnati) in daylight hours on the 14th or 15th, so that we can muster a good reception. ALS 2p
5-12-1885 NK, Ogden, Utah, to O. H. Oldroyd, Springfield,
Ill.
Describes his service 1863-1865, serving under Grant at Vicksburg, then being
sent to Arkansas. ALS 2p
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