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 KILPATRICK

KIMBALL

KILPATRICK, Washington Lafayette, edu- cator, was boru in Burke county, Ga., Oct. 18, 1829 ; eldest son of the Rev. James Hall Tanner and Harriet Eliza (Jones) Kilpatrick. He was graduated at Mercer university, A.B., 1850, A.M., 1853, and was licensed to preach at Penfield, Ga., 1850, and ordained in 1852, when he began his ministry to churches in the Hephzibah associa- tion. Chiefly through his instrumentality, the Hephzibah high school was established in 1861, and he was its principal, 1866-76 ; and pastor of churches, 1852-96. He organized the Walker Colored association in 1868 and the Georgia Bap- tist Historical society, of which he was president, 1878. He was elected a trustee of Mercer univer- sity in 1869 and president of the board in 1887. He received the degree of D.D. from Mercer in 1882. He also served as moderator of Hephzibah association and vice-president of the Foreign Mis- sion board for Georgia. He is the author of His- tory of Hephzibah Association (1894). He died in Hephzibah, Ga., Aug 3. 1896.

KILTY, Augustus Henry, naval officer, was born in Annapolis, Md., Nov. 25, 1807. He was appointed midshipman in the U.S. navy from Maryland, July 4, 1821, served on the Franklin, 1821-27, and was ordered to the frigate Constella- tion, West In- dia squadron, in 1827. He was promoted passed mid- shipman, April 28, 1832; lieu- tenant, Sept. 6, 1837; was ordered to the sloop John Adams, of the East India squad- ron, in 1840 ; the frigate Columbus, Mediter- ranean squadron, 1843 ; the frigate United states, 1847 ; served in the Mediterranean squad- ron, 1848 ; on board the receiving ship Neio York, 1850 ; in naval rendezvous, Baltimore, Md., 1851 ; and on board the receiving ship New York, 1855. He was commissioned com- mander, Sept. 14, 1855, and commanded the naval rendezvous, Baltimore, Md., 1860-61. He commanded the Mound City, one of the ves- sels of the Mississippi flotilla, 1861-62, and was with Flag-Officer Foote in nearly all of liis actions with the Confederate forts and gunboats. He commanded the White River expedition, made up of the ironclads Mound City, flagship, and St. Louis, the wooden gunboats Conestoga and Tyler, and the 46th Indiana volunteex's. Col. G. A. Fitch. The expedition proceeded up the river to St. Charles, where on July 17, 1862, he had an engagement with the enemy, capturing Fort St. Charles. A thirty-two pound shot caused

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the explosion of the steam drum of the Mound City, and eighty-two of her crew perished in the casemate, forty-three were killed in the water or drowned and twenty-five seriously wounded, in- 'cluding Commander Kilty, who was sent at once to Memphis, and had his left arm amputated. He was promoted captain, July 16, 1862 ; was on ordnance duty, 1863-64 ; commanded the ironclad Roanoke in the North Atlantic squadron, 1864-65, and was promoted commodore, July 25, 1866. He commanded the Norfolk navy yard, 1866-69, and was retired in 1870, with the rank of rear- admiral. He died in Baltimore, Md., Nov. 10, 1879. KIMBALL, Amos Samuel, soldier, was born in Lawrence, N.Y., July 14, 1840 ; son of James and Sophia (Taft) Kimball, and grandson of Amos Kimball. He was graduated at the State Normal school, Albany, N.Y., in 1859, and in November, 1861, was commis- sioned 1st lieutenant in the 98th New York volunteer infantry. He served with the Army of the Potomac to November, 1862, participating in

McClellan's peninsula campaign ; with Gen- eral Hunter in the Carolinas to March, 1863, being present at the first bom- bardment of Charles- ton, S.C. ; and serv- ing in North Carolina with Heckman's brigade to June, 1863, and as acting quartermaster at Roanoke Island, N.C., to April, 1864, where he brought 2000 negroes through the Confederate lines to the island. He was commissioned captain and assistant quarter- master of volunteers, April 7, 1864, and was in charge of water transportation at Fort Monroe, Va., to September, 1864, where he outfitted Butler's expedition to Bermuda Hundred and Terry's expedition to Fort Fisher, He volun- teered his services and was ordered to Newbern, N.C., where the yellow fever was epidemic and had stricken every officer of the quartermaster's department, and where he became ill with the plague. He served as chief quartermaster at Newbern till April, 1865, when he was ordered to New York as assistant to the depot quartermaster, was brevetted captain, major, lieutenant-colonel and colonel by the state and appointed major of volunteers by brevet and assistant quartermaster with the rank of captain, U.S.A. From August, 1866, to April, 1867, he was in charge of the de- pot and chief quartermaster of the Middle mili- tary department, Baltimore, Md. He had charge