When George Kimball (1840-1916) joined the Twelfth Massachusetts in
1861, he'd been in the newspaper trade for five years. When he
mustered out three years later, having been wounded at
Fredericksburg and again at Gettysburg (mortally, it was mistakenly
assumed at the time), he returned to newspaper life. There he
remained, working for the "Boston Journal" for the next four
decades. A natural storyteller, Kimball wrote often about his
military service, always with a newspaperman's eye for detail and
respect for the facts, relating only what he'd witnessed firsthand
and recalled with remarkable clarity. Collected in "A Corporal's
Story," Kimball's writings form a unique narrative of one man's
experience in the Civil War, viewed through a perspective enhanced
by time and reflection.
With the Twelfth Massachusetts, Kimball saw action at many of the
most critical and ferocious battles in the eastern theater of the
war, such as Second Bull Run, Antietam, Gettysburg, the Wilderness,
Spotsylvania, and Petersburg--engagements he vividly renders from
the infantry soldier's point of view. Aware that his readers might
not be familiar with what he and comrades had gone through, he also
describes many aspects of army life, from the most mundane to the
most dramatic. In his accounts of the desperate action and
immediate horrors of war, Kimball clearly conveys to readers the
cost of preserving the Union. Never vindictive toward Confederates,
he embodies instead the late nineteenth-century's spirit of
reconciliation.
Editors Alan D. Gaff and Donald H. Gaff have added an introduction
and explanatory notes, as well as maps and illustrations, to
provide further context and clarity, making George Kimball's memoir
one of the most complete and interesting accounts of what it was to
fight in the Civil War--and what that experience looked like
through the lens of time.
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