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Kane, ++++:

im Juni 1861 Marshall in Baltimore; seine prosüdliche Sympathien veranlaßten ihn bald nach einem Besuch des 2nd Wisconsin Re­giment, sich der Konföderation als Offizier anzuschließen (vgl. Gaff: If this is War, a.a.O., S. 132)

 

 

Kane, Thomas Leiper:

US-BrigGen; als LtCol führte er am 6.6.1862 das 13th Pennsylvania Reserves 'Bucktail Rifles', in einem Gefecht nördlich Port Repu­blik (während Jackson's Valley Campaign), bei dem CS-BrigGen Turner *Ashby gefallen ist (vgl. Krick: Conquering the Valley, a.a.O., S. 29; vgl. Swank: Courier, a.a.O., S. 23). Kane's Battalion wurde von der 1st Maryland Infantry (CS) unter Bradley Tyler *Johnson geschlagen, 287 US-Soldaten, darunter Kane wurden gefangengenommen (vgl. Swank: Courier, a.a.O., S. 23). Kane wurde ausgetauscht gegen LtCol Williams Carter *Wickham (vgl. Boatner, a.a.O., S. 918 Wickham).

 

Photo:

- Milhollen / Kaplan: Divided We Fought, a.a.O., S. 65 (als LtCol)

 

 

Kappesser, Peter:

US-Corp; 8.1.1839 Heiligenmoschel - 31.3.1930 Syracuse/New York, beerdigt auf dem Woodlawn Cemetery. Corporal 149th New York Infantry; er erhielt die Medal of Honor für seine Leistungen im Battle of Lookout Mountain am 24.11.1863 (vgl. Kukatzki; in Pfälzisch-Rheinische Familienkunde 2008, S. 448).

 

 

Karge, Joseph:

US-LtCol; 1st New Jersey Cavalry. Am 29.7.1862 ordnete LtCol Joseph Karge, 1st New Jersey Cavalry, von Elm House, Va. aus eine Aufklärung mit 150 Mann unter Führung von Major Myron H. Beaumont in Richtung Orange Court House an den Rapidan River bei Madison Mills, mit dem Befehl, den Fluß nicht zu überqueren Beaumont vertrieb die an der Furt stehenden CS-Posten (vgl. Karge's Report OR 12 [2] S. 110; Beaumont's Report OR 12 [2] S. 111). Am 7.8.1862 stieß Owen Jones auf Befehl von BrigGen Bayard mit seinem Regiment Richtung Madison Court House vor, um seine Postenlinie, die westlich des Roberton River stand und von CS-Trup­pen angegriffen wurde, zu verstärken (vgl. Karte bei Krick: Cedar Mountain, a.a.O., S. 18). Gleichzeitig stieß BrigGen Bayard mit der 1st New Jersey Cavalry unter Führung von LtCol Joseph *Karge und Major Myron *Beaumont in zwei Angriffskeilen auf Bar­nett's Ford am Rapidan vor. Hierbei stieß die US-Cavalry auf starke CS-Kräfte der Division Ewell, deren Vorhut aus Robertson's Ca­valry bestand (vgl. BrigGen Bayard's Report OR 12 [2] S. 92-93). BrigGen Bayard ordnete den Rückzug an, wobei die US-Cavalry das verzögerte Gefecht führte. Auch Jones' Truppen wurden über den Robertson River zurückgenommen. Auf Befehl Bayard's ließ Jones die Brücke über den Robertson River zerstören (vgl. Bayard's Report OR 12 [2] S. 92).

 

Karge led the 1st New Jersey Cavalry in the Virginia Campaigns and then trained and led the 2nd New Jersey Cavalry in Tennessee.

 

Documents/Literature::

- Kajencki, Francis C.: Star of Many A Battlefield: Brevet Brigadier General Joseph Karge in the American Civil War (Fairleigh Dickinson, 1980)

 

 

Karsner, William F.:

CS-Captain; Co G 4th Alabama Infantry

 

 

Kasey, John G.:

CS-LtCol. während Jackson's Vorstoß gegen Pope's Army of Virginia Anfang August 1862 und im Battle von Cedar Mountain am 9.8.1862 war Kasey Regimentskommandeur der 58th Virginia Infantry.

 

 

Katcham, Edward:

US-Lt; 120th New York Infantry

 

- Duganne, A. J. H.: The Fighting Quakers: A True Story of the War of our Union (Schroeder Publications, 120 pp, Photos, Reprint of 1866 Original). The story of two brothers and as cousin who were killed in the war - Lt Edward Katcham (120th NY Vols) and Lt John Ketcham and Capt Nehemiah Mann (4th NY Cavalry)

 

 

Kauffman, Henry:

US-Pvt; Co. I, 110th Regiment Ohio Infantry (vgl. National Park Soldiers M552 Roll 57).

 

Documents/Literature::

- The Civil War Letters (1862-1865) of Private Henry Kauffman: the Harmony boys are all well. Henry Kauffman, 110th O.V.I..Edi­tor David McCordick. E. Mellen Press. Lewiston, O. 1991

 

 

Kauffman, Henry:

US-Pvt; Co. C, 28th Regiment Pennsylvania Infantry (vgl. National Park Soldiers M554 Roll 62); auch Henry Kaufman

 

 

Kauffman, Henry:

US-Sergeant; Co. D, 166th Regiment Pennsylvania Infantry (Drafted Militia) (vgl. National Park Soldiers M554 Roll 62).

 

 

Kauffman, Henry:

US-Pvt; Co. E, 171st Regiment Pennsylvania Infantry (Drafted Militia) (vgl. National Park Soldiers M554 Roll 62).

 

 

Kauffman, Joseph Franklin:

CS-Private, auch Joseph Kaufmann (vgl. Tanner: Stonewall in the Valley, a.a.O., S. 575); 10th Virginia Infantry (William B. *Talia­ferro's Brigade); das Regiment wurde Ende April 1862 von Manassas zu Jackson's Army of the Valley verlegt und nahm an der Of­fensive gegen Frémont und Banks ab 30.4.1862 teil (vgl. Tanner: Stonewall in the Valley, a.a.O., S. 163, 179). Teilnahme am Vorstoß Jackson's gegen Pope's Army of Virginia im August 1862 und am Battle of Cedar Mountain am 9.8.1862 (vgl. Krick: Cedar Moun­tain, a.a.O., S. 33-34, 40-41, 323, 341: Tanner: Stonewall in the Valley, a.a.O., S. 575)

 

Documents/Literature::

- Kauffman, Joseph Franklin: Diary, University of North Carolina. Southern Historical Collection (SHC), Chapel Hill, North Caroli­na (vgl. Krick: Cedar Mountain, a.a.O., S. 33-34, 40-41, 323, 341)

 

 

Kavanagh, William F.:

CS-Pvt; Co. G, 3rd Regiment Alabama Infantry (vgl. National Park Soldiers M374 Roll 24).

 

 

Kean, Robert Garlick Hill:

Captain Kean was head of the Bureau of War for the Confederacy; aus Lynchburg, VA

 

Documents/Literature::

- Kean, Robert Garlick Hill (ed. by Edward Younger): Inside the Confederate Government (Oxford Univ., NY 1957); Nevins says "This well-edited diary of one close to the seat of war; observations are sharp, keen, perceptive; especially revealing of the character and inner workings of government")

- Kean Collection: Property of Dr. Robert H. Kean of Richmond, VA. Darin: A few letters from CS-Secretary of State, Randolph and Mrs. Randolph to Randolph's nephew by marriage, Captain R. G. H. Kean of Lynchburg, VA, mostly in the post-war period; a ma­nuscript sketch of about 3.000 words concerning Randolph's career as brigadier general and stopping just after he became Secretary of War, which was presumably written by R. G. H. Kean; a few notes on Randolph's early life, presumably by Mrs. Randolph; and a draft amnesty petition for Randolph, probably by Kean (vgl. Jones: Confederate Strategy from Shiloh to Vicksburg, a.a.O., S. 241-42)

 

 

Kearns, Watkins:

CS-Sgt; 27th Virginia Infantry; Stonewall's Army of the Valley (vgl. Tanner: Stonewall in the Valley, a.a.O., S. 119, 575).

 

Documents/Literature::

- **Kearns, Watkins: Diary. Typescript of unpublished diary of Watkins Kearns of the 27th Virginia Infantry; written in 1862 (Virginia Historical Society, Richmond, Virginia)

 

 

Kearny, Philipp:

US-MajGen; 1814-62; aus New York; Graduate des Columbia College; Eintritt in die US Army 1837; Berufsoffizier; als Militärbeob­achter bei der französischen Armee in Algerien 1840 (vgl. Nevins: Col Wainwright, a.a.O., S. 31). 1845 war Philipp Kearny Lt in Co. F der 1st US-Dragoons und nahm an der Durchquerung Amerikas über den Oregon Trail zum Schutz von 'Emigrant Parties' aus dem Osten der USA nach Oregon unter Führung von Col Stephen W. Kearny teil. Weitere teilnehmende Offiziere waren Captain Phi­lip St. George *Cooke (Co. F), Lt. John Love (Co. C), Lt William B. Franklin von den Topographical Engineers und Lt Richard S. *Ewell (vgl. Pfanz: Ewell, a.a.O., S. 44). Teilnahme am Mexikokrieg. Einarmiger Kriegsheld des Mexiko-Krieges (vgl. Gibbon: Per­sonal Recollections, a.a.O., S. 20). Kearny trat anschließend aus der US Army aus und wurde Offizier der französischen Armee. Er wurde für seinen Einsatz in der Schlacht von Solferino mit der Mitgliedschaft der 'Ehrenlegion' (Légion d'Honneur) be­lohnt (vgl. Ne­vins: Col Wainwright, a.a.O., S. 35 n). Kearny war einer der am besten trainierten Offiziere auf US-Seite (vgl. Nevins: Col Wainw­right, a.a.O., S. 35). Im Frühjahr 1862 BrigGen und Brigadekommandeur in Franklin's Division Army of the Potomac während der Peninsular Campaign. Er zeichnete sich erneut aus und wurde zum MajGen ernannt (vgl. Nevins: Col Wainwright, a.a.O., S. 42). Ge­fallen im Battle of 2nd Bull Run am 30.8.1862.

 

Captain James H. Haynes, 55th Virginia regiment, says he was on the skirmish line at Chantilly, in the edge of a brushy place with a clearing in front. It was raining heavily and growing dark when Kearny rode suddenly upon the line, and asked what troops they were. Seeing his mistake, he turned and started across the open ground to escape, but was fired on and killed. His body was brought into the lines and was recognized by General A. P. Hill, who said, sorrowfully, "Poor Kearny! He deserved a better death than this." The next day General Lee ordered that the body be carried to the Federal lines, and in a note to General Pope he said: " The body of General Philip Kearny was brought from the field last night, and he was reported dead. I send it forward under a flag of truce, thin­king the possession of his remains may be a consolation to his family." A C. R. According to General A. P. Hill, Kearny fell in front of Thomas's brigade, but he also states that Brockenbrough's brigade held the skirmish line, and to this Captain Haynes's and Lieuten­ant Healy's regiment, the 55th Virginia, belonged." (Anm. der Editors von Battles and Leaders, Vol II, S. 537/38).

 

Documents/Literature::

- **Baquet, Camille (Lt. Co. A, 1st NJ): History of the First Brigade, New Jersey Volunteers (MacCrellish & Quigley, State Printers, Trenton, 1910) (PDF-Datei, Archiv Ref, ameridownload 'New Jersey Brigade (Kearny) (Baquet)'

- **De Peyster, John Watts: Personal and Military History of Phil Kearney (New York 1869; First Edition)

- **Werstein, Irving: Kearny the Magnificant: The Story of General Philip Kearny, 1815-1862 (John Day, New York 1962)

 

 

Keen, Newton Asbury:

CS-Pvt; 6th Texas Cavalry, Ross Texas Brigade; Teilnahme an der Aktion von Keetsville / Missouri am 25.2.1862 (vgl. Hale: Third Texas, a.a.O., S. 89 mit Anm. 13 S. 300; Keen, Such is War, a.a.O., S. 248; Shea / Hess: Pea Ridge, a.a.O., S. 97). Teilnahme am Battle of Pea Ridge am 7.3.1862 (vgl. Shea / Hess: Pea Ridge, a.a.O., S. 96). Keen was born in Indiana and moved to Texas at an ear­ly age. He joined the 6th Texas Cavalry and saw heavy fighting at Elkhorn Tavern and Corinth. He was captured and imprisoned at Camp Douglas in Chicago and provides a vivid portrait of the prison and its horrors

 

Documents/Literature::

- Keen, Newton A.: "'Such is War': The Confederate Memoirs of Newton Asbury Keen." Edited by William C. Billingsley. Texas Mi­litary History 6, no. 4 (Winter 1967), S. 239-253; Texas Military History 7, nos. 1-3 (Spring-Fall 1968), S. 44-70, 103-119, 176-194

- Keen, Newton Asbury : Living and Fighting with the Texas 6th Cavalry (reprint Olde Soldier Books und reprint Butternut Press, Inv., Baithersburg 1986, Md.)

 

 

Keene, H. S.:

US-Lt; 6th Wisconsin Battery; am 3.3.1863 wurde die Battery im Zuge der Verlegung des XVII Army Corps Division Isaac M. Quin­by per Schiffstransport den Tallahatchie River flußaufwärts transportiert im Rahmen des US-Angriffs auf Fort Pemberton (vgl. Bear­ss: Vicksburg, a.a.O., S. xviii).

 

 

Keener:

s. Kühner

 

 

Keesey, William A.:

US-Pvt, Co. I, 55th Regiment Ohio Infantry (vgl. National Park Soldiers M552 Roll 57) und Reverend Co. I des Regiments (vgl. Os­born: Trials and Triumphs. The Record of the Fifty-Fifth Ohio Volunteer Infantry, a.a.O., S. 36).

 

Photo:

Pvt und Rev. William A. Keesey (vgl. Osborn: Trials and Triumphs. The Record of the Fifty-Fifth Ohio Volunteer Infantry, a.a.O., S. 36)

 

 

Keifer, Joseph Warren:

US-Col; (1836-1932), commanding the 2nd Brigade, 3rd Division, 6th Corps, to Colonel Charles Kingsbury (b. 1836), assistant adjutant general, Middle Military District

 

Urkunden/Documents/Literature::

Library of Virginia, Richmond/VA Letter, Archives: Keifer, Joseph Warren: Letter, 9 October 1864, from Union Colonel Joseph Warren Keifer (1836-1932), commanding the 2nd Brigade, 3rd Division, 6th Corps, to Colonel Charles Kingsbury (b. 1836), assistant adjutant general, Middle Military District, complaining that the brigade band and men of 9th New York Heavy Artillery have been nurses in the hospital in Winchester, Virginia, and have been detained improperly by the hospital surgeon despite Keifer’s order for them to return. Keifer requests an order for their return. Letter is endorsed by Kingsbury, General James B. Ricketts (1817-1887) commanding the 3rd Division, and General Horatio G. Wright (1820-1899) commanding the 6th Corps and the troops are ordered to be returned.

 

 

Keigwin, James:

US-Col; Regimentskommandeur 49th Indiana Infantry, 9th Division Osterhaus, XIII. Army Corps McClernand während Grant's Campaign gegen Vicksburg 1863 (vgl. Bearss: Vicksburg, vol. II, S. 402). Keigwin führte die US-Aufklärung in McClernand's Army Corps am 25./26.4.1863 in Louisiana südlich New Carthage Richtung Hard Times Landing bei Grant's Vorstoß auf dem Westufer des Mississippi zur Übersetzstelle der Armee südlich Vicksburg (vgl. Winschel, Triumph & Defeat, a.a.O., S. 26; Karte bei Winschel, a.a.O., S. 23). Battle of Port Gibson am 1.5.1863 (vgl. Bearss: Vicksburg, vol. II, S. 402).

 

 

Keiholtz, David:

s. David *Keilhotz

 

 

Keiholtz, George:

US-Pvt; Co. E, 208th Regiment Pennsylvania Infantry (vgl. National Park Soldiers M554 Roll 62); original filed under 'Keilholtz'

 

 

Keil, Frederic W.:

US-1stLt; Co. C, 35th Regiment Ohio Infantry (vgl. National Park Soldiers M552 Roll 57).

 

 

Literatur:

- **Keil, F. W.: Thirty-Fifth Ohio: A Narrative of Service from August, 1861, to 1864 (Fort Wayne, 1894)

 

 

Keilholtz, David:

US-Pvt; Co. F, 165th Regiment Pennsylvania Infantry (Drafted Militia) (vgl. National Park Soldiers M554 Roll 62); auch 'Keilholtz' Keiholz, David: Papers, 1862-1863, Library of Virginia, Richmond/VA, Archives, Accession 38833

 

Keiholtz of Adams County, Pennsylvania, and the 165th Pennsylvania Regiment, consisting of notice, 27 August 1862, informing Keiholtz that he has been enrolled as a citizen of Adams County eligible to be drafted for military service; draft notice, 18 October 1862, informing Keiholtz he has been drafted into military service; letter, 8 January 1863, from Daniel P. Keiholtz to David Keiholtz discussing his brother’s being drafted, commenting on the war and slavery, detailing the makeup of his corps, asking about David’s service with the army near Suffolk, Virginia, stating he has seen a balloon, and commenting on fighting; letter, 21 April 1863, from Daniel Keiholtz to David Keiholtz commenting on the action around Suffolk, the land and people around Fredericksburg, Virginia, and general news, and commenting that there will be heavy fighting in the summer; discharge notice, 28 July 1863, for David Keiholtz of the 165th Pennsylvania drafted militia for reason of expiration of term of service (vgl. Keiholz, David: Papers, 1862-1863, Library of Virginia, Richmond/VA, Archives, Accession 38833)

 

 

Urkunden/Documents/Literature::

- Keilholz, David: Papers, 1862-1863, Library of Virginia, Richmond/VA, Archives,Accession 38833

 

 

Keilholtz, George:

s. Keiholtz, George

 

 

Keith, James H.:

CS-Captain; Co K 4th Alabama Infantry; gefallen im Battle von Fredericksburg

 

 

Keith, Thomas:

CS-Pvt, Co B, 28th Regiment Louisiana Infantry (Gray's) (vgl. National Park Soldiers M378 Roll 15); 21.8.1821 - † 30.8.1863, be­erd. Caney Creek Cemetery, Rocky Mount, Bossier Parish /LA; Bruder von CS-Pvt Wiley C. *Keith °° mit Jane Oliver Keith (1829-1904); aus der Ehe stammen 4 Kinder (vgl. www.findagrave). Thomas Keith starb während seiner Dienstzeit beim 28th Regiment Louisiana Infantry (Gray's) an Typhus; seine Witwe erhielt eine Pension (vgl. Louisiana Confederate Pension Application Reel CP1.76).

 

 

Keith, Wiley C.:

CS-Pvt, Co. I, 9th Regiment Alabama Cavalry (Malone's) (vgl. National Park Soldiers M374 Roll 24); 8.8.1820 - † 27.3.1894, beerd. Rocky Mount Cemetery, Rocky Mount, Bossier Parish /LA; Bruder von CS-Pvt Thomas *Keith; °° Martha Ann Edith Urquhart Keith (1837-1890); aus der Ehe stammen 3 Kinder (vgl. www.findagrave).

 

 

Keitt, Lawrence M.:

CS-Politiker; aus South Carolina (vgl. Davis: A Government of Our Own, a.a.O., S. 12, 47); früher Kritiker Jefferson Davis' (vgl. Chestnut: Diary, a.a.O., S. 68, 86). Keitt war Delegierter von South Carolina auf der Provisional Convention der pro-sezessionistischen Staaten, die im Februar 1861 in *Montgomery / Alabama stattfand (vgl. Davis: A Government of Our Own, a.a.O., S. 12, 47). Im Verlauf des Krieges war Keitt Offizier (vgl. Castel: Decision in the West, a.a.O., S. 21-22, 574 n 20) im Rang eines Col (vgl. Ruffin: Diary, a.a.O., vol. 2, S. 59); Col 20th Regiment South Carolina Infantry (vgl. National Park Soldiers M381 Roll 18).

 

Documents/Literature::

- **Keitt, Lawrence: Papers (Duke University, Durham, North Carolina)

 

 

Keller, William H.:

CS-Adjutant; 47th Alabama Infantry; Schwager des Regimentskommandeurs Col James Washington *Jackson (vgl. Penny / Laine: Struggle for the Round Tops, a.a.O., S. 42). 1863 während der Gettysburg Campaign gehörte die 48th Alabama Infantry zu Longstreet’s I. Corps, 1st Division Hood, 4th Brigade BrigGen Evander McIver Law. Die Regimentsstärke betrug im Sommer 1863 vor der Schlacht von Gettysburg 418 Mann (vgl. Penny / Laine: Struggle for the Round Tops, a.a.O., S. 23). Das Regiment nahm am 2.7.1863 teil beim Angriff der Division Hood auf Plum Run Valley und Devil's Den (vgl. Penny / Laine, a.a.O., S. 39).

 

Photo:

- Penny / Laine: Struggle for the Round Tops, a.a.O., S. 42

 

 

Kelley, A. K.:

CS-Private, 21st Virginia Infantry (Tanner: Stonewall in the Valley, a.a.O., S. 504)

 

Documents/Literature::

- Kelley, A. K.: Kelly letters. Unpublished wartime letters of A. K. Kelley, Member of the 21st Virginia Infantry. Kelly-Williamson Papers. Duke University Manuscript Collection, Durham, North Carolina

 

 

Kelley, Benjamin Franklin:

US-++++Gen; 1807-91, New Hampshire, Vorkriegszeit Kaufmann und Railroad Agent; ab 22.5.1861 Col. 1st (West) Virginia Infan­try (vgl. McClellan: Own Story, a.a.O., S. 50); Col. Kelley griff unter McClellan am 26.5.1861 Grafton / West Virginia am Knoten­punkt der Baltimore-Ohio-RR an und setzte am 3.6.1861 den Angriff auf Philippi fort (sog. Philippi-Races), dabei schwer verwundet; ab August 1861 BrigGen, Brigadekommandeur Kelley's Brigade, Army of the Occupation in West Virginia (Mai - Aug. 1861) u. Rail­road District / W. Va. (11.10.61- 11.3.1862); Kelley befehligte dabei den Angriff in West Virginia im Oktober 1861; am 26.10.1861 griffen Kelley's Truppen Romney / WV an und erzwangen den Rückzug der Rebs auf Winchester (Anm.: Zeitangabe stimmt nicht: der Angriff am 26.10.1861 wurde abgeschlagen, der Angriff vom 24.11.1861 war dagegen erfolgreich; vgl. McDonald: Laurel Briga­de, a.a.O., S. 27). Hilfegesuche der Verteidiger an Gen Johnston, den Befehlshaber in Nord-Virginia, blieben erfolglos, mit Ausnahme der Detachierung eines Rekruten-Regiments, da Johnston alle verfügbaren Truppen bei Manassas benötigte (vgl. Chase: Diary, a.a.O., S. 52); Eroberung von Romney und Blue's Gap. Anschließend kommandierte Kelley den Railroad District, Mountain Depart­ment (11.3.62-26.6.62); Railroad District, Mid. Department (22.7.-20.9.62) und Defenses Upper Potomac, VIII, Mid. Dept. (5.1. - Feb. 63); später im Government Service.

 

 

Kelley, David C.:

CS-Major; Forrest's Cavalry (vgl. Wills: Forrest, a.a.O., S. 49; Button: Early Engagements with Forrest, in: Confederate Veteran V [1897], S. 479)

 

 

Kelley, Henry:

CS-+++; 1st Virginia Infantry

 

Photo:

- Davis / Wiley: Photographic History of the Civil War, vol I, a.a.O., S. 141

 

 

Kelley, Thomas Benton:

US Pvt; 8th Illinois Cavalry (Co E); Kelley war am 1.7.1863 zusammen mit Pvt James O. Hall auf vorgeschobenem Vorposten der 8th Illinois Cavalry westlich von Gettysburg an der Straße nach Cashtown; sie waren die ersten US-Soldaten die auf CS-Truppen tra­fen (vgl. Martin: Gettysburg, a.a.O., S. 63; Pfanz: Gettysburg: The First Day, a.a.O., S. +++; vgl. Newton: McPherson's Ridge, a.a.O., S, 22).

 

Lt Jones kommandierte am 1.7.1863 den vorgeschobenem Vorposten der 8th Illinois Cavalry westlich von Get­tysburg an der Straße nach Cashtown; seine Männer, darunter Pvt Thomas Kelley und Pvt George Sager, waren die ersten US-Soldaten die auf CS-Truppen trafen (vgl. Martin: Gettys­burg, a.a.O., S. 63). Jones feuerte einen der ersten Schüsse im Battle of Gettysburg ab (vgl. Martin, a.a.O., S. 63 mit S. 606n27; Longacre: The Cavalry at Gettysburg, a.a.O., S. 186; vgl. Newton: McPherson's Ridge, a.a.O., S. 21-22).

 

10.10.1838 Castleton, Rutland County/Vermont - † 18.1.1915; beerd. Evergreen Cemetery, Rutland/Vermont; °° Mary Amelia Kelley Kelley (!) (1838-1904) (vgl. www.findagrave.com).

 

Photo:

- http://www.readex.com/blog/“long-wicked-war“-regimental-histories-american-civil-war-collection-1860-1922

- Thomas Benton Kelley (vgl. www.findagrave.com)

 

 

Kellog/Kellogg:

die Sortierung erfolgt nach Vornamen, unabhängig von der jeweiligen Schreibweise des Familiennamens

 

 

Kellogg, Edward P.:

US-2ndLt; Co. C, 2nd Regiment Wiscon­sin Infantry (vgl. National Park Soldiers M559 Roll 16).

 

Documents/Literature:

- Kellogg, Edward: „Letters from a Soldier,“ Milwaukee Sunday Telegraph, September 228, 1879

 

 

Kellog, Elisha F.:

US-Major; 1st Connecticut Artillery; bei der Belagerung von Yorktown während der Peninsular Campaign 1862 bei *Farinholt House eingesetzt (vgl. Photo bei Thomas: Cannons, a.a.O., S. 53). Kellog befehligte hierbei Battery Nr. 1 bei *Farinholt House, bestehend aus fünf weitreichenden 100-pounder Parrots (Reichweite 6800 yards; Photo bei Thomas: Cannons, a.a.O., S. 53) und einer 200-pounder Parrot (vgl. Newton: Johnston and the Defense of Richmond, a.a.O., S. 130).

 

 

Kellogg, Henry M.:

US-Pvt; Co. G, 55th Regiment Ohio Infantry (vgl. National Park Soldiers M552 Roll 57).

 

Photo:

Pvt Henry M. Kellogg (vgl. Osborn: Trials and Triumphs. The Record of the Fifty-Fifth Ohio Volunteer Infantry, a.a.O., S. 64)

 

 

Kellog, John A.:

US-BrigGen; in der Vorkriegszeit war Kellog „Prosecuting Attorney“ im Juneau County / Wisconsin; im April 1861 stellte Kellog zusammen mit Rufus A. Dawes eine Freiwilligen Company auf unter dem Namen „The Lemonweir Minute Men“ (vgl. Dawes: Ser­vice with the Sixth Wisconsin, a.a.O., S. 6). Zunächst First Lieutenant Co. K, 6th Wisconsin Infantry; promoted Captain Co. I, 6th Wisconsin Infantry / Iron Brigade (vgl. http://ironbrigader.com/2011/03/06/capture-escape-captain-john-a-kellogg-iron-brigades-6th-wisconsin-infantry/). LtCol 4.12.1864; Col 18.12.1864; Bvt. BrigGen USA 9.4.1864 (vgl. Boatner: Civil War Dictionary, a.a.O., S. 450).

 

1863 im Stab von Cutler's Brigade; am 1.7.1863 im Battle of Gettysburg bei Seminary Ridge eingesetzt als AAD (vgl. Martin: Get­tysburg, a.a.O., S. 110, 135). Kellog beobachtete den Angriff am Bloody Railroad Cut am 1.7.1863 vom Waldrand bei Se­minary Ridge; vgl. Martin: Gettysburg, a.a.O., S. 135).

 

16.3.1828 - † 10.2.1883; born in Bethany, Pennsylvania, Kellogg settled in Sauk County, Wisconsin, where he studied law and was admitted to the bar. During the American Civil War, Kellogg served in the 6th Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry Regiment. After the war, Kellogg was a pension agent in La Crosse, Wisconsin and then moved to Wausau, Wisconsin, where he served in the Wisconsin State Senate (vgl. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Azor_Kellogg).

 

Prisoner of War:

aus http://ironbrigader.com/2011/03/06/capture-escape-captain-john-a-kellogg-iron-brigades-6th-wisconsin-infantry/):

 

On May 5th, while on skirmish duty at the opening of the Battle of the Wilderness, Kellogg was knocked unconscious, probably from an artillery shell explosion. Disoriented when he regained consciousness, he wandered through the densely wooded battlefield and was captured by members of the 13th Georgia Infantry. Kellogg and other prisoners captured at the Wilderness were marched to Gord­onsville, Virginia, where they boarded freight cars and went by rail to Lynchburg, Virginia. At the prison in Lynchburg, Kellogg and about 200 other officers were housed in a 20 by 50 foot room. “The floors of the building were filthy, and the ceilings swarmed with vermin,” Kellogg recalled, adding “the building was only a fit habitation for the rats that infested it”. Other than the prison buil­ding itself, Kellogg regarded the treatment at Lynchburg as being relatively decent with a camp commander who was “humane” and with food that was of good quality but limited in quantity. The prisoners had begun construction of a tunnel to escape, but before it could be completed, they were taken to Danville, Virginia.

 

Kellogg described the two story brick building at the Danville prison as being “filthy beyond description”. Food consisted of pea soup and cornbread, of such poor quality that “the very recollection is nauseating”. The stay in Danville was brief, and once again the prisoners were loaded in freight cars and shipped out, this time to Macon, Georgia. Conditions were worse here than in the first two places. Kellogg was shocked at the appearance of the prisoners in the camp. “Who were these gaunt skeletons, clothed in rags, cover­ed with dirt … wild, eager eyes were peering into our faces — eyes from which had departed all expression except that of hopeless misery.” The approximately five acre camp held 1500 prisoners, many of whom were without shelter. Prisoners were issued a pint of corn meal and a teaspoon of salt per day, with a slice of bacon or some peas every second or third day. With prisoner exchanges sus­pended by the Federal government, the incarcerated faced two choices: they could stay in the camp and face death by starvation and exposure, or they could try to escape. Kellogg discovered that construction of a tunnel had already begun, and joined in the excavati­on.

 

The tunnel had been dug about 90 feet, with about 30 feet left to go, when one of the Union prisoners told the Confederate guards about the tunnel. The betrayer was removed before the prisoners could exact revenge. The situation was becoming desperate, with starvation a very real possibility. At one point, Kellogg caught a rat and made a soup with some wormy peas, a beef bone, and onion peelings.  Another tunnel was started, but before it got very far, the Macon prisoners were sent by rail to Charleston, South Carolina.

 

A few miles outside of Charleston, Kellogg and five others jumped off the train under cover of darkness, in the hope of reaching Uni­on lines at Port Royal, South Carolina. Without map or compass, the six made their way through alligator infested swamps only to be recaptured by a slave catcher with bloodhounds. They were taken to Charleston and imprisoned there. After spending some weeks confined in the Charleston prison, the prisoners were offered a deal. They would be provided better quarters within the city in ex­change for a pledge not to escape. Realizing that escape from their current location was unlikely, almost all, including Kellogg, ac­cepted the offer. They were quartered comfortably in a hospital building and grounds, and were well fed. The one downside to this lo­cation was that Union forces had been shelling Charleston for some time, and the occasional mortar or artillery round would land nearby.

 

Kellogg might have stayed in Charleston for the rest of the war, but a Yellow Fever outbreak had the Confederate authorities empty­ing out the prisons to help prevent the disease from spreading. About the first of October, the prisoners were ordered to Columbia, South Carolina. Kellogg and four companions agreed to make an escape attempt while en route to Columbia. This time, they had a map and a compass to aid them. They departed on October 5th for Columbia. The plan was to jump from the train at night and head for Union lines between Chattanooga, Tennessee and Atlanta. With four armed guards stationed near the doors of the freight cars, es­cape might prove fatal unless the guards were disarmed. A plan was devised for that. The guards relaxed as the trip continued into the night, and after getting tired of standing, sat down in the doorway with their feet hanging down, and with their muskets beside them. Kellogg’s group removed the percussion caps from the muskets, disarming them. Kellogg gave a signal, and the men jumped from the rapidly moving train. The group traveled mostly at night, resting well off the roads during the day. Two became separated early in the trek, and unable to find them, Kellogg and the other two continued on without them. They traveled for several days, at one point eluding pursuit by bloodhounds, until they arrived at the Savannah River. They would need help getting across the river, since one man couldn’t swim. Kellogg decided to take a chance and approached a slave cabin on a nearby plantation. Would they help or turn them in? They were more than willing to help. They fed the men and gave them five days worth of food to take along, secured a boat and ferried them across the river, and gave them information on the movements and positions of Union forces. “They were faithful to every trust imposed upon them by us, even to the imperiling of their lives. They were not only willing to divide their final crust with us, but to give us the last morsel of food in their possession” wrote a grateful John Kellogg. They continued on into Georgia, finally encountering some Georgia Unionists who gave them shelter and escorted them to General William T. Sherman’s lines near Calhoun, Georgia. Encountering a Union army outpost guard, Kellogg asked what regiment he was from. “The First Wisconsin Cavalry”  was the reply and Kellogg and his men went wild with celebration. They had successfully crossed three hundred miles to safety. And the two men that had gotten separated from the group early on had made it out too, taking a more northern route and reaching Union li­nes at Chattanooga.

 

Photo:

BrigGen John A.Kellog (vgl. http://ironbrigader.com/2011/03/06/capture-escape-captain-john-a-kellogg-iron-brigades-6th-wisconsin-infantry/)

 

Documents/Literature::

- Kellog, John A.: Letter vom 1.11.1865 an John B. Bachelder; in Bachelder Papers, New Hampshire Historical Society, Concord, New Hampshire

- Kellog, John Azor: Capture and Escape: a narrative of army and prison life (1908)

- Nolan: Iron Brigade, a.a.O., S. 18, 39, 70, 128, 138, 139, 200, 280-281; background and pre-war career, S. 14; capture and escape, S. 200; commands brigade, S. 279; comissioned colonel S. 279, 378 (n. 58, Epilogue), commissioned major 378 (n. 58, Epilogue), Cutler's Adjutant S. 197.

 

 

Kellog, Josiah H.:

US-Col; 17th Pennsylvania Cavalry (vgl. Martin: Gettysburg, July 1, a.a.O., S. 39). 1863 während der Gettysburg Campaign gehörte das Regiment (9 Co.’s) zur Cavalry Division John Buford, 2nd Brigade Col Thomas C. Devin (vgl. Martin: Gettysburg, July 1, a.a.O., S. 575, 39).

 

 

Kellog, L. D., Dr.:

US-Surgeon, 17th Illinois Infantry (vgl. Cole: The Era of the Civil War, a.a.O., S. 335).

 

Documents/Literature::

- Moyer, Henry P.: History of the Seventeenth Regiment Pennsylvania Volunteer Cavalry (Lebanon, Pa.: Sowers Printing Co., 1911)

 

 

Kellogg, Robert H.:

US-Sergeant Major; Co. A, 16th Regiment Connecticut Infantry (vgl. National Park Soldiers M535 Roll 9).

 

Documents/Literature::

- Kellogg, Robert (16th Connecticut Infantry): Life and Death in Rebel Prisons. Giving a complete history of the inhuman and barba­rous treatment of our brave soldiers by rebel authorities, inflicting terrible suffering and frightful mortality, principally at Anderson­ville, GA., Florence, SC., describing plans of escape, arrival of prisoners, with numerous and varied incidents and anecdotes of pri­son life (Stebbins, Hartford 1865)

 

 

 

Kelly, Isaiah F.:

US-Corpporal; 1863 Co B 6th Wisconsin Infantry (vgl. Martin: Gettysburg, a.a.O., S. 131, 134).

 

Documents/Literature::

- Kelly, Isaiah: Letter to Rufus R. Dawes, 2. August 1892, Dawes Papers; State Historical Society of Wisconsin

 

 

Kelly, J. H.:

US-LtCol; Regimentskommandeur 114th Ohio Infantry, 9th Division Osterhaus, XIII. Army Corps McClernand während Grant's Campaign gegen Vicksburg 1863 (vgl. Bearss: Vicksburg, vol. II, S. 402). Battle of Port Gibson am 1.5.1863 (vgl. Bearss: Vicksburg, vol. II, S. 402).

 

 

Kelly, James H.:

US-Sgt; 70th Indiana Infantry (vgl. Castel: Decision in the West, a.a.O., S. 188)

 

Documents/Literature::

- Kelly, James H.: Journal (Indiana Historical Society, Indianapolis)

 

 

Kelly, John:

US-Pvt; Co. B, 7th Regiment Rhode Island Infantry (vgl. National Park Soldiers M555 Roll 4).

 

 

Kelly, John Herbert:

CS-BrigGen, 1840-1864; Kelly war 1862 Major 9th (14th) Arkansas (Battalion); Im Frühjahr 1862 und im Battle of Shiloh gehörte das 9th Arkansas Infantry Battalion zur 3rd Brigade BrigGen Sterling A. M. Wood III. Army Corps MajGen William J. Hardee in A. S. Johnston’s Army of the Mississippi (vgl. Daniel: Shiloh, a.a.O., S. 321; Grant: The Opposing Forces at Shiloh; in: B&L I 539).

 

Kelly wurde der jüngste General der CSA und ist im November 1864 bei einem Cavalry Raid auf Franklin / Tennessee gefallen (vgl. Daniel: Shiloh, a.a.O., S. 150; Boatner, a.a.O., S. 450)

 

Documents/Literature::

- Boatner, a.a.O., S. 450

- Daniel: Shiloh, a.a.O., S. 150

- o.A.: "Major John H. Kelly." Alabama Historical Quarterly, vol. IX (1947), S. 9-114

- Warner: Generals in Gray, a.a.O., S. 168-169

 

 

Kelly, John R.:

US-Corporal; Co. G, 7th Regiment Ohio Infantry (vgl. National Park Soldiers M552 Roll 57).

 

 

Kelly, Joseph:

CS-+++; CS-+++; Soldat der Britischen Armee; ausgewandert nach Missouri; im Frühjahr 1861 Captain in der Missouri Miliz (vgl. Duke: War Reminiscenses, a.a.O., S. 52).

 

 

Kelly, Michael R:

US-Pvt; Co. K, 7th Regiment Rhode Island Infantry (vgl. National Park Soldiers M555 Roll 4).

 

 

Kelly, Patrick:

US-Col; während des Battle of Fredericksburg am 13.12.1862 Regimentskommandeur 68th New York Infantry (Meagher's Irish Bri­gade)

 

Während der Gettysburg Campaign 1863 war Kelly Brigadekommandeur 2nd Brigade, 1st Division BrigGen John C. Caldwell, II. Army Corps Winfield S. Hancock.

 

Documents/Literature::

- OR 21:241

 

 

Kelso, Captain:

CS-Captain; aus Louisiana; Co. K 2nd Louisiana Infantry. Während McClellan's Peninsular Campaign eingesetzt bei Dam Nr. 1 am 16.4.1862 (vgl. Confederate Military History, a.a.O., vol. X, S. 211; vgl. Report of Col Levy, OR 11.1 S. 420-421).

 

 

Kelsey, Stephen:

US-Pvt; 5th New York Infantry

 

Documents/Literature::

- Kelsey, Stephen: Papers, 1865, 1920. Virginia Tech, Univ. Libraries, Special Collections: Civil War guide: Manuscript Sources for Civil War Research in the Special Collections Department of the Virginia Tech Libraries; 0.1 cu. ft., Ms90-029. Union soldier in the 5th New York Regiment, Battalion J. Papers include a diary written between January and May, 1865, while stationed in New York and Virginia. Participated in the occupation of Petersburg, Virginia, in April 1865. Entries refer to the assassination of Pres. Abra­ham Lincoln and the capture of Jefferson Davis. Also includes a typescript essay by Ernest Flint Kelsey (Stephen Kelsey's son) commen­ting on the diary. Ms90-029.

 

 

Kelton, John C.:

US-Col, Co. F&S, 59th Regiment Illinois Infantry (vgl. National Park Soldiers M539 Roll 48)

 

 

Kelton, John Cunningham:

US-Col; 24.6.1828 Delaware County/PA - † 15.6.1893 Washington; S. v. Robert Keltin und Margaretta Ross (vgl. findagrave.com); USMA 1851 (26/42); Inf.-Adj. Gen. He served on the frontier and taught at West Point before becoming Chief Purchasing Comsy. at St. Louis 11.5.1861-5.8.1861. Named Capt. Asst. Gen. 3.8.1861; he served in the Depts. Of the West and of the Mo. until 11.3.1862, when he went to the Dept. of the Miss. As Col 9th Missouri Infantry Regiment 19.9.1861 (resigned) 12.3.1862) and Col. Add. A.D.A. 4.1.1862, he was at Corinth and served as Halleck's Asst. Adj. Gen. 11.7.1862-1.7.1865. Continuing in the Regular Army, he war brevetted four times for war service, including BrigGen USA. He retired in 1892 as BriogGen USA, then Adj.Gen. (vgl. Boatner: civil War Dictionary, a.a.O., S. 451.452).

 

Lt. Kelton war 1859 in West Point in charge of the Dept. of Fencing, Target Firing (vgl. Alexander: Figh­ting for the Confederacy, a.a.O., S. 13); anschließend von Juni bis Herbst 1859 auf Studienreise in Europa; Assistant Adjutant Gene­ral unter Halleck in Wa­shington (vgl. Hitchcock, Marching with Sherman, a.a.O., S. 25; (vgl. Porter: Campaining with Grant, a.a.O., S. 17). Im Sommer 1862 war Kelton Stabsoffizier im War Department in Washington. Er war persönlich bekannt mit Charles Francis *Adams jr und un­terrichtete diesen Ende August 1862 über die Stimmung gegen MajGen John Pope, was Adams in seinem Brief vom 27.8.1862 (ge­schrieben in *Willard's Hotel in Washington) an seinen Vater Charles Francis *Adams, dem US-Botschafter in London, treffend wie­der gibt (zitiert bei Sears: Landscape turned Red, a.a.O., S. 1; Ford, Worthington Chauncey (ed): Cycle of Adams Letters, 1861-1865, vol. I, S. 177-78).

 

Kelton wurde nach der Schlacht von 2nd Bull Run vom War Department in Washington beauftragt, die Situation der Truppen Pope's zu erkunden und fand die Situation „very different“ von den Berichten Popes. The President should know, said Kelton, that all the roads leading to to the capital were clogged with stragglers, perhaps 30.000 in number. Furthermore, these troops, and their officers, still standing with their commands were severly demoralized (vgl. Sears: Controversies & Commanders, a.a.O., S.87).

 

 

Kemper, Delaware:

CS-+++Offizier; führte am 17.6.1861 bei *Vienna eine Artillerie-Batterie, die einen US-Zug unter dem Kommando von BrigGen *Schenck beschoß (vgl. Alexander: Fighting for the Confederacy, a.a.O., S. 43; OR 2:128-30; vgl. Mosby, Memoirs, a.a.O., S. 27).

 

 

Kemper, James Lawson:

CS-BrigGen; 1823-95; aus Virginia. +++weiter: Boatner: Dictionary, a.a.O., S. 452)+++

 

im Juli 1861 als Col Regimentskommandeur der 7th Virginia Infantry (vgl. Early: War Memoirs, a.a.O., S. 5). Ruffin berichtet von einer gemeinsamen Fahrt mit dem damaligen Col. Kemper in die Schlacht von 1st Manassas (Ruffin, Diary II 55, 56). Kemper war 1863 Brigadekommandeur in Pickett's Division in Gettysburg;

 

Photos:

- Longacre: Pickett, a.a.O., S. 121

 

Urkunden/Documents/Literature::

- Kemper, James L.: Papers. Alderman Library, University of Virginia, Charlottesville/Va.

 

 

Kemper, William Penn:

CS-Corporal; Co. B, 10th Regiment Virginia Infantry (vgl. National Park Soldiers M382 Roll 31; vgl. Krick: Conquering the Valley, a.a.O., S. 280)

 

Documents/Literature::

- Kemper, Benjamin F and Brothers.: Daybook and Inventory (Benjamin F. Kemper and Brothers Daybook and Inventors; Duke Un­iversity, Manuscript Department, Durham, North Carolina)

 

 

Kempster, Walter:

US-+++

 

Documents/Literature::

- Kempster, Walter: "The Cavalry at Gettysburg," War Papers: Wisconsin MOLLUS, 4 (1914): 400

 

 

Kendall, James S.:

CS-Major; Co. K, 26th North Carolina Infantry; er trat als First Lieutenant in das Regiment ein (vgl. National Park Soldiers M230 Roll 21). Er wurde be den Regimentswahlen vom 21.4.1862 zum Major gewählt, aber seine Dienstzeit war kurz. Da er wenig Kontakte zu den anderen Offizieren des Regimentsstabs hatte, bot er bereits am 21.7.1862 seine Resignation an und staeb wenige Monate später an Geldfieber (vgl. Hess: Lee's Tar Heels, a.a.O., S. 28-19; vgl. Unterwood: „Twenty-Sixth Regiment“, a.a.O., S. 328-30).

 

 

Kendall, John Smith:

CS-+++; Teilnahme am Battle of Shiloh (vgl. Daniel: Shiloh, a.a.O., S. 263).

 

Documents/Literature::

- Kendall, John Smith: "Recollections of a Confederate Staff Officer." Louisiana Historical Quarterly, vol. XXIX (October 1946), S. 1041-1071

 

 

Kendall, John T.:

CS-First Leutenant; Co. F; 4th RegimentLouisiana Infantry; er tat als Pvt in das Regiment ein (vgl. National Park Soldiers M378 Roll 15).

 

 

Kendrick, H.:

CS-Pvt; Co. F, 12th Regiment Georgia Infantry (vgl. National Park Soldiers M226 Roll 34).

 

 

Kenly, John R.:

US-MajGen, 1822-91; aus Maryland (vgl. Swank: Courier, a.a.O., S. 20). Regimentskommandeur 1st Maryland Infantry (US-Trup­pen); von Belle Boyd über die gegnerische Truppenreduzierung bei Front Royal unterrichtet, überraschen "Stonewall" Jackson und Ewell mit 16 000 Mann am 23.5.1862 die Unionstruppen unter Oberst John R. Kenly bei Front Royal (Karte bei McPherson, a.a.O., S. 449) im Shenandoah-Tal *Front Royal (Karte bei Davis, a.a.O., Nr. 27.1) an, Jackson manövrierte die US-Kräfte disastouly aus, die in wilder Flucht Winchester zu erreichen suchten, verfolgt von Jackson's Rebs (vgl. Chase: Diary, a.a.O., S. 87 u. 287 Anm. 15). Kenly's Regiment wurde aufgerieben, Stonewall Jackson macht 700 Gefangene. Col. wird bei dem Gefecht schwer verwundet (vgl. Tanner: Stonewall in the Valley, a.a.O., S. 263) und gefangengenommen (vgl. Boatner, a.a.O., S. 453; vgl. Swank: Courier, a.a.O., S. 21). Einen wesentlichen Anteil am Erfolg hatte das 1st Maryland (CS-Truppen; vgl. Swank: Courier, a.a.O., S. 20).

 

 

Kennedy, Robert Cobb:

CS-Captain; John Hunt Morgan's Cavalry (vgl. Horan: Confederate Agent, a.a.O., S. 8). Später CS-Agent. Kennedy stammt aus Loui­siana; in West Point Kamerad von E. P. Alexander; aus West Point entlassen wegen nicht ausreichender Bewertung am 7.1.1855. Kennedy versuchte zusammen mit anderen CS-Agenten New York in Brand zu setzen (vgl. Alexander: Fighting for the Confederacy, a.a.O., S. 8/9); Kennedy war bei Kriegsausbruch - wie Alexander (vgl. Alexander: Fighting for the Confederacy, a.a.O., S. 8) notiert: Soldat "somewhere in our western army & he was taken prisoner, but managed to escape from the Northern prison where he was con­fined & got across to Canada."

 

Anm. zu CS-Geheimdienst Operationen in Canada:

Confederates developed a number of clandestine assets in Canada, initially to support the passage of couriers and other tasks. In 1864 the Confederacy established what amounted to a field office capable of developing and carrying out complex clandestine operations. Jacob *Thompson, the chief, reported to Benjamin and Davis, but he also had the support of a War Department team under the con­trol of eit, a.a.O., S. 751; Kinchen, Oscar A.: Confederate Operations in Canada and the North, North Quincy, Mass., 1970).

 

Alexander berichtet weiter: "While there je joined in a wild, absurd & utterly indefensible scheme to burn N.Y. City gotten up by some Confederate refugees there - on their own responsibility & and without any authority or countenance from Confederate authori­ty. Kennedy & one or two others went to N.Y, & on a certain day Kennedy started a fire in Barnum's Museum on Broadway not far from the Astor House & the others started fires in one or two hotels. All of the fires were soon discovered & extinguished, but it was known that they were a Confederate effort to burn the city & large rewards were offered for those concerned in it. Kennedy had made his escape back to Canada & stayed at Niagara Falls. Some detective went there & managed to get into his confidence & roomed with him & last persuaded Kennedy one day to walk across the suspension bridge with him. He had officers on the lookout with war­rants & no sooner did poor Kennedy set foot on U.S. soil than he was arrested. He was tried, sentenced & hung in old Fort Lafayette." (vgl. Alexander: Fighting for the Confederacy, a.a.O., S. 8/9)

 

Kennedy wurde am 25.3.1865 hingerichtet (vgl. Markle, Spies and Spymasters, a.a.O., S. 93)

 

Documents/Literature::

- Brandt, Nat: "The Man Who Tried to Burn New York (Syracuse, 1986)

 

 

Kent, Charles N.:

US-1stLt; Co. C, 17th Regiment New Hampshire Infantry (vgl. Kent: 17th New Hampshire Infantry, a.a.O., S. 60; Anm. bei National Park Soldiers nicht genannt)

 

Documents/Literature::

- Kent, Charles (Lieutenant 17th New Hampshire): History oh the 17th Regiment, New Hampshire Volunteer Infantry 1862-1863 (Rumford Press, Concord / NH 1898); Rosters, Appendix, Illustrated (Bibliothek Ref PDF-Dabei ameridownload New Hampshire 17th Infantry)

 

 

Kent, Lewis A.:

US-Captain; Co. GDA, 6th Regiment Wisconsin Infantry; er trat als Pvt in das Regiment ein (vgl. National Park Soldiers M559 Roll 16; vgl. Herdegen/Beaudot: Bloody Railroad Cut, a.a.O., S. 41n25).

 

Urkunden/Documents/Literature::

- Kent, Lewis A.: „Capt. Kent's Memory,“ Milwaukee Sunday Telegraph, September 15, 1887

 

 

Kercher, Jacob:

US-Lt, 9th Illinois Infantry (vgl. Morrison: "History of the 9th Regiment Illinois Volunteer Infantry", a.a.O., S. 7).

 

 

Kern, Joseph M.:

CS-+++; 13th Virginia Infantry (vgl. Tanner: Stonewall in the Valley, a.a.O., S. 575).

 

Documents/Literature::

- Kern, Joseph M.: Letters. Unpublished wartime letters of Joseph M. Kern of the 13th Virginia Infantry; scattered sates, with types­cript "Memorandum History of Movements of Hampshire Guards, Co. K, 13th Virginia Infantry, CSA" (Southern Historical Society Collection, Chapel Hill, North Carolina)

 

 

Kerns, William Franklin:

US-Captain / Asskistant Quartermaster

 

In April 1685 Captain Kerns was the Assistant Quartermaster in charge of river transportation for the Department of Mississippi. Kerns, who was from St. Peter/Minnesota, had enlisted and served with the 9th Regiment Minnesota Infantry, but in 1864, at the age of twenty-four, he had accepted a commission as an assistant quartermaster of the US Vols with the rank of captain. By July 1864, Kerns was reassigned to the Department of Mississippi and stationed in Vicksburg (vgl. Potter: Sultana Trahedy, a.a.O., S, 27).

 

Urkunden/Documents/Literature::

- Military Record of Capt. William Franklin Kerns, Records of the Adjutant General's Office, Record Group 94, National Archives, Wasahington/DC

 

 

Kerr, J. Fetter:

US-Sgt; Co. I 133rd Pennsylvania Infantry; an einer Erkrankung gestorben Anfang Dezember 1862 nahe Fredericksburg (vgl. Gal­lagher u.a.: Fredericksburg, a.a.O., S. 85).

 

 

Kerr, John H.:

US-+++; 155th Pennsylvania Infantry

 

Documents/Literature::

- Kerr, John H.: Oration Delivered at the First Reunion of the One Hundred and Fifty-Fifth Regiment, Penn’a Veteran Volunteers, at Lafayette Hall, Pittsburg ... September 17, 1675 (Pittsburg: Samuel F. Kerr, 1875)

 

 

Kerr, Thomas:

US-Lt; seit 1.7.1863 Companiechef Co D 6th Wisconsin Infantry (vgl. Dawes: Full Blown Yankee, a.a.O., S. 168).

 

 

Kerrigan, James C.:

US-Jounalist; New York Herald (vgl. Nosworthy: Bloody Crucible, a.a.O., S. 130).

 

 

Kershaw, Joseph Brevard:

CS-BrigGen; 1861 Col. Kershaw's 2nd South Carolina Infantry (Ruffin, Diary II 40, 56; Davis: Battle of Bull Run, a.a.O., S. 106), darunter als Kompanie die Palmetto Guards;

 

Kershaw’s Brigade nahm teil am Battle of Antietam (Sharpsburg) und South Mountain (14.-17.9.1862), wobei die Brigade nur in Harper's Ferry eingesetzt war. Während Jacksons Angriff auf Harper's Ferry 13.-17.9.1862 griff Kershaw's Brigade die strategisch wichtigen Maryland Heights nördlich von Harper's Ferry an (vgl. Cannan, Antietam, a.a.O., S. 76 ff.). Die Brigade umfaßte 1862 folgende Regimenter:

- 2nd South Carolina Infantry (Col. John D. Kennedy)

- 3rd South Carolina Infantry (Col. James D. Nance)

- 7th South Carolina Infantry (Col. D. Wyatt Aiken)

- 8th South Carolina Infantry (Col. John W. Henagen)

 

Während der Gettysburg Campaign gehörte Kershaw's Brigade zum I. Army Corps Longstreet, 1st Division (McLaws's Division) MajGen Lafayette und umfaßte folgende Regimenter:

- 2nd South Carolina Col J. D. Kennedy (w), LtCol F. Gaillard

- 3rd South Carolina Major R. C. Maffett, Col J. D. Nance

- 7th South Carolina Col D. Wyatt Aiken

- 8th South Carolina Col J. W. Henagan

- 15th South Carolina Col W. G. De Saussure (k), Major William M. Gist

- 3rd South Carolina Battalion LtCol W. G. Rice

 

Die Brigade kam am 2.7.1863 ins Gefecht und bildete die Spitzenbrigade Longstreet's bei dessen Vorrücken gegen den linken Flügel der US-Front bei Peach Orchard an der Emmitsburg Road (vgl. Penny / Laine: Struggle for the Round Tops, a.a.O., S. 28 mit Karte S. 29). Der linke Flügel der Brigade stützte sich auf die Emmitsburg Road und erstreckte sich in Front über die Warwick Ridge in Front auf Peach Orchard. Als Kershaw's Männer aus dem Wald bei Warwick Ridge nach Osten vorstießen, erkannte Kershaw zu seiner Überraschung, daß auf seiner linken ungeschützten Flanke sich überraschend US-Truppen befanden. Es handelte sich hierbei um die auf Grund eines Führungsfehlers zu weit nach vorn gezogene III. US-Corps unter MajGen Daniel E. Sickles. Lee's Angriffplan sah einen Ablenkungsangriff auf die US-Nordfront bei Cemetary Ridge durch das Corps Ewell vor, einen weiteren zur Ablenkung ge­führten zentralen Angriff auf die US-Front durch Corps von A. P. Hill, während gleichzeitig Longstreet auf den schwachen linken US-Flügel bei Peach Orchard und die Höhen nördlich von Big Round Top angesetzt war. Dieser angriffsplan mußte nun in letzter Mi­nute, wegen der unerwarteten Aufstellung des III.US-Corps Sickles' geändert werden. Anstelle eines Angriffs durch die links einge­setzte Division McLaws mit der Brigade Kershaw, erfolgte nunmehr der Angriff durch die rechts eingesetzte Division Hood, der sich im Echelon McLaws Division anschließen sollte (vgl. Penny / Laine: Battle for the Round Tops, a.a.O., S. 26-30).

 

Documents/Literature::

- Dickert, D. Augustus: History of Kershaw's Brigade (Originally published in 1899; Reprint Broadfoot); 730 pp; Complete Rosters with Supplement; with Complete Role of Companies, Biographical Sketches, Incidents, Anecdotes, etc. Nevins calls this „A full, thick account of a famous South Carolina brigade; the author gives personal descriptions of campaigns in both East and West“

- **Kershaw, Joseph B.: „Kershaw's Brigade at Gettysburg,“ in: B&L, a.a.O., 3:331-338

 

 

Kerwin, Michael:

US-Major; Co. F&S, 13th Pennsylvania Cavalry (vgl. National Park Soldiers M554 Roll 64).

 

Teilnahme an der vom Col Schall befehligten Aufklärung vom 12.6.1863 südlich von Winchester/VA mit 5 Kompanien des 87th Re­giment Pennsylvania Infantry, a battalion on the 13rd Pennsylvania Cavalry und 2 guns of Battery L, Fifth US Artillery, mit einer Ge­samtstärke von 700 Mann; hierbei war Kerwin the advance guard commander (vgl. Nye: Here come the Rebels, a.a.O., S. 74).

 

Am 13.6.1863 kam es um 9:30 bei Winchester zu einem Cavalry Skirmish zwischen Major James H. *Nounnan's Cavalry (16th Re­giment Virginia Cavalry) und Teilen 13rd Pennsylvania Cavalry unter Major Michael *Kerwin (vgl. Nye: Here come the Rebels, a.a.O., S. 79; vgl. OR XXVII, Pt. 2, pp. 70, 73, 440; vgl. Hotchkiss: Diary, a.a.O., vom 13.6.1863).

 

 

Kesland, Jacob:

US-Pvt; Co. B, 1st Regiment Massachusetts Infantry (vgl. National Park Soldiers M544 Roll 22); Res. East Boston; 28 y.; cooper; enl. Aug. 4, 1862; must. Aug. 13, 1862; † Aug. 10, 1863, of wounds reed, at Gettysburg, Penna., July 2, 1863 (vgl. Massachusetts Adju­tant General: Massa­chusetts Sol­diers , a.a.O., vol 1, p. 12); buried Gettysburg National Cemetery.

 

 

Ketcham, Delazon:

US-Pvt; Co E 29th Wisconsin Infantry.

 

Documents/Literature::

- Ketcham, Delazon: Letters written from Helena in 1862 and 1863

 

 

Ketcham, John:

US-Lt; 120th New York Infantry (?)

 

Documents/Literature::

- Duganne, A. J. H.: The Fighting Quakers: A True Story of the War of our Union (Schroeder Publications, 120 pp, Photos, Reprint of 1866 Original). The story of two brothers and as cousin who were killed in the war - Lt Edward Katcham (120th NY Vols) and Lt John Ketcham and Capt Nehemiah Mann (4th NY Cavalry)

 

 

 

Kettell, Thomas Prentice:

Journalist; früherer Herausgeber der 'Democratic Review'; er veröffentlichte 1857 ein Buch unter dem Titel 'Southern Wealth and Northern Profits', das die sektionalen Spannungen nach Ende der Wirtschaftskrise verdeutlichte; Kettell gab die verbreitete Ansicht des Südens wieder, der Norden schöpfe die Gewinne aus dem Baumwollhandel ab und beute den Süden aus (vgl. Nevins, Emergence of Lincoln, vol. I, a.a.O., S. 218).

 

Documents/Literature::

- Kettell, Thomas P.: History of the Great Rebellion (Hartford 1866)

 

 

Ketzle, Henry:

US-Sergeant; geboren in Deutschland 1835; Pvt. Co. A 37th Illinois Infantry; enlisted at Little Rock a, 14.8.1861; am 7.3.1762 Battle of Pea Ridge; das Regiment war im Rahmen von Julius *White's Brigade, 3rd Division Jefferson C. *Davis eingesetzt im Wald ost­wärts Oberson's Field an der Leetown Road. Es stieß überraschend im dichten Unterholz auf Truppen der CS-Brigade Louis *Hébert (vgl. Shea / Hess: Pea Ridge, a.a.O., S. 122 mit Karten S. 108 und 223). Reinlisted als Veteran am 10.2.1864, ausgemustert als Ser­geant am 15.5.1866.

 

Documents/Literature::

- Ketzle, Henry: Memoir (Mullins Collection, Wayne / New Jersey)

 

 

Key, John J.:

US-LtCol; 60th Regiment Indiana Infantry (vgl. National Park Soldiers M540 Roll 41)

 

 

Key, John J.:

US-Major; Bruder von Col. Thomas M. *Key aus McClellan's Stab (vgl. Sears: Controversies & Commanders, a.a.O., S. 134-135).

 

Major Key hatte nach der Schlacht von Antietam gegenüber Levi C. *Turner, judge advocate at the War Department in Washington auf die Frage, warum McClellan die bei Antietam geschlagene Lee's Army of the Northern Virginia nicht verfolgt und endgültig ver­nichtet habe, geantwortet: „The object is that neither army shall get much advantage of the other; that both shall be kept in the field till they are exhausted, when we will make a compromise and save slavery“ (vgl. Sears: Controversies & Commanders, a.a.O., S. 134-135). Diese Bemerkung wurde Präsident Lincoln berichtet, dem wiederholt Gerüchte über eine bevorstehende Revolte der Offi­ziere der Army of the Potomac zugetragen worden waren. Durch Col. Thomas M. *Key aus McClellan's Stab waren Gerüchte über eine Conspiracy gegen die Lincoln Regierung in die Presse lanciert worden. Lincoln suchte nun ein Exempel zu statuieren und ord­nete daraufhin die Entlassung von Masjor John J. Key an, wegen „silly treasonable talk, because I feared it was staff talk & I wanted an example“. No doubt an injustice was done to the hapless Major Key, but as a signal to the officers of the Army of the Potomac it was unmistacable (vgl. Sears: Controversies & Commanders, a.a.O., S. 135).

 

 

Key, Thomas J.:

CS-Captain; Key's Battery Arkansas Light Artillery (vgl. National Park Soldiers M376 Roll 13).

 

Artillery Officer; aus Helena / Arkansas; Vorkriegszeit: Journalist und Zeitungsverleger in Helena; während seines Ur­laubs 1864 gelang Key ein Besuch bei seiner Familie, die im US-besetzten Helena lebte. Key beschreibt in seinem Tagebuch die Ge­fahren dieser Reise und sein mehrmaliges knappes Entkommen (vgl. Castel: Decision in the West, a.a.O., S. 34). 1864 war Key Bat­teriechef der Arkansas Battery, Cleburne's Division (vgl. Castel: Decision in the West, a.a.O., S. 89; B & L, vol. IV, a.a.O., S. 290), Key's Battery (vgl. Castel: Decision in the West, a.a.O., S. 106). Die Battery gehörte zu 1864 Hotchkiss’ Battalion, Hardee’s Corps, Army of Tennessee (vgl. B & L, vol. IV, a.a.O., S. 290) und war zu Cleburne's Division detachiert (vgl. Castel: Decision in the West, a.a.O., S. 89). Key war stellvertretender Kommandeur von Hotchkiss' Battalion (vgl. B & L, vol. IV, a.a.O., S. 290).

 

Documents/Literature::

- **Key, Thomas J.: Two Soldiers: The Campaign Diaries of Thos. J. Key, C.S.A., and Robt. J. Campbell, U.S.A., ed. Armistead Cate (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1938)

 

 

Key, Thomas M.:

US-Col; Vorkriegszeit Attorney und Judge in Cincinnati, er bat US-Finanzminister Chase am 11.1.1862 um Rat vor einem Gespräch mit Gen McClellan (vgl. Chase: Diary, a.a.O., S. 59/60); dann aide de Camps von Gen McClellan; nach der Antietam Campaign von Präsident Lincoln scharf getadelt und aus der Armee ausgeschlossen, weil Key geäußert hatte "that it would have been impolitic and injudicious to have destroyed the enemy army" (vgl. Chase: Diary, a.a.O., S. 281 Anm. 24).

 

Col Key hörte von der Unzufriedenheit der Offiziere der Army of the Potomac mit der Regierung in Washington, der vorgeworfen wurde, durch mangelnde Unterstützung McClellan's dessen Strategie während der Peninsular Campaign unterlaufen zu haben. Key berichtete seinem früheren Anwaltsfreund und damaligen Korrespondent ner New York Tribune, „that a plan to countermarch to Wa­shington aynd intimidate the President had been seriously duscussed the night before of members of McClellan's staff“ (vgl. Sears: Controversies & Commanders, a.a.O., S. 134).

 

Bruder von US-Major John J. Key (vgl. Sears: Controversies & Commanders, a.a.O., S. 134).

 

 

Keyes, Erasmus Darvin:

US-GenMaj; 29.5.1810 Brimfield/Massachusetts - † 14.10.1895 Nizza, Departement des Alpes-Maritimes, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, France; beerd. US Military Academy West Point/NY Cemetery (vgl. http://www. findagrave.com).

 

West Point 1832; ab Nov. 1861 Divisionskommandeur Keyes Division (vgl. Rhodes, Elisha Hunt:: All for the Union, a.a.O., S. 40). Während McClellan's Peninsular Campaign im Frühjahr 1862 befehligte Keyes den linken Flügel beim Vormarsch von Fort Monroe gegen die Verteidigungslinie *Magruder's vor Yorktown. Keyes Corps ging über die einzige Hauptstraße auf der Peninsular vor ge­gen Lee's Mill, wo die Straße den Warwick River überquerte und die CS-Hauptverteidi­gungslinie kreuzte (vgl. Dowdey, Seven Days, a.a.O., S. 44-45 mit Karte S. 44). Keyes führt das IV. Korps der Potomac-Armee in der Schlacht von Seven Pines (Photo in Längin, a.a.O., S. 102).

 

Civil War Union Major General. He commanded the IV Corps of the Union Army of the Potomac during the first half of the Ameri­can Civil War. The son of a renowned physician and surgeon, he moved with his family to Kennebec County, Maine as a youth. He decided to pursue a military career and enrolled in the US Military Academy at West Point, New York, graduating 10th out of a class of 45 in 1832, and was commissioned a brevet second lieutenant in the 3rd US Artillery. He served in Charleston Harbor during the nullification crisis of 1832 to 1833, and served as an aide to General Winfield Scott from 1837 to 1841. After being promoted to the rank of captain in November 1841, he served in various garrisons until 1844 and then functioned as an artillery and cavalry instructor at US Military Academy. In 1854 he was sent with the US 3rd Artillery Regiment around Cape Horn to California and served on the Pacific frontier in garrison duty and Native American campaigns in the Northwest. Promoted to the rank of major in October 1858, he returned to Washington DC near the end of 1859 and became General Winfield Scott's military secretary from January until April 1861. In May 1861, after the outbreak of the Civil War, he was promoted to the rank of colonel of the 11th U.S. Infantry, serving briefly on the staff of New York Governor Edwin D. Morgan until June 25, 1861, overseeing that state's raising of militia. On July 21, 1861, at the First Battle of Bull Run, he commanded the 1st Brigade, 1st Division (Tyler), and then led Keyes's Brigade, before assuming command of a division from November 1861 until March 13, 1862. In August 1861 he was promoted to the rank of briga­dier general of volunteers with date of rank of May 17, 1861, the third-ranking brigadier general in the Army. He was then given command of IV Corps, leading it from its inception on March 3, 1862, until its discontinuation on August 1, 1863. He saw action at Lee's Mill, Yorktown, Bottom's Bridge, Savage's Station, Seven Pines (Fair Oaks), Charles City Cross Roads, Malvern Hill, and Har­rison's Landing. For gallantry at Fair Oaks, Keyes received the brevet of brigadier general in the regular army. On March 12, 1863, President Abraham Lincoln nominated Keyes for promotion to the grade of major general, U.S. Volunteers, to rank from May 5, 1862 and the US Senate confirmed the award on March 13, 1862. In addition to the IV Corps, he commanded the Yorktown District, VII Corps, and the division at Suffolk. Among Keyes's other military actions were the raid to White House, Virginia, on January 7, 1863, and the expedition to West Point, Virginia, on May 7, 1863. During the Gettysburg Campaign in July 1863, he fell afoul of General John Adams Dix's strategic plan to demonstrate heavily against Richmond in order to divert Confederate reinforcements from Gene­ral Robert E. Lee's army in Pennsylvania. He retreated from a position near what is now Tallysville, Virginia, in the face of what Dix deemed to be inferior forces, so Dix had Keyes removed from command. He requested an investigation of the charges that led to his removal but it was never granted. He then served on various boards and commissions, including the board for retiring disabled offi­cers from July 1863, until his resignation and retirement from the US Army in May 1864, with 32 years of continued military service. Following his retirement, he moved to San Francisco, California where he became financially successful and prominent. He was president of a Mexican gold mining company from 1867 to 1869, and vice president of the California vine-culture society from 1868 to 1872. He also was engaged in the savings and loan business. He was the author of "The Rear Guard at Malvern Hill" as part of The Century Company's "Battles and Leaders of the Civil War" series, as well as "Fifty Years' Observation of Men and Events" (1884), later reprinted as "Fighting Indians in Washington Territory" (1988). His work "From West Point to California" was published posthumously in 1950. While on a trip to Europe with his wife, he died in Nice, France, at age of 85 (vgl. http://www. findagrave.com).

 

°° II 1862 mit Mary Loughborough (1831-1907; sie °° I mit George W. P. Bissel); Vater von Dr. Henry Elmo Keyes (vgl. http://www. findagrave.com).

 

Photo:

- Milhollen / Kaplan: Divided We Fought, a.a.O., S. 54

- Gen. Erasmus Darwin Keyes (vgl. http://www. findagrave.com).

 

Documents/Literature::

- Keyes, Erasmus D.: Fifty Years' Observation of Men and Events (New York, 1885)

 

 

Keys, John:

US-Captain; Commanding Officer der 1st Squadron Pennsylvania Cavalry, die umfaßte die Ringgold and Washington Cavalry (s. Captain Andrew J. Greenfield); Einsatz im Battle of Kernstown am 23.3.1862 (vgl. OR 12 [I]: 355; 357-358 [Keys' Report])

 

 

Kidd, James Harvey:

US-Col; Co. F&S, 6th Regiment Michigan Cavalry; prior he was Captain, Co. E, 6th Regiment Michigan Cavalry (National Park Soldiers M545 Roll 22).

 

Documents/Literature::

- Kidd, James Harvey (6th Michigan Cavalry): Personal Recollections of a Cavalryman with Custer's Cavalry Brigade in the Civil War (Time Life, NY 1983); As New Condition; Reprint; Originally Published in 1908; 476 pp, Maps, Photos, Roster of men killed in battles; Nevins says "...this remains a basic source for federal cavalry operations in the East."

 

 

Kidd, Reuben Vaughan:

CS-Captain; zunächst Lt, dann Captain Co A 4th Alabama Infantry. 1863 während der Gettysburg Campaign gehörte die 4th Alabama Infantry zu Longstreet’s I. Corps, 1st Division Hood, 4th Brigade BrigGen Evander McIver Law. Kidd ist gefallen in der Schlacht von Chickamauga (19./20. Sept. 1863).

 

Photo:

- Penny / Laine: Struggle for the Round Tops, a.a.O., S. 14

 

Documents/Literature::

- **Pierrepont, Alice V. D.: Reuben Vaughan Kidd, soldier of the Confederacy, Petersburg, 1947

 

 

Kiefer, William R.:

US-Sergeant; Co. A, 153rd Regiment Pennsylvania Infantry (vgl. National Park Soldiers M554 Roll 65).

 

Documents/Literature::

- Kiefer, William R.: History of the 153rd Regiment Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry (Originally issued in 1909, reprint Butternut & Blue); 352 pp plus added 52 page pamphlet with pencil annotations by a member of the regiment; this regiment lost 247 out of 550 at Gettysburg

- Kiefer, William: Diary, 1862-63; Gregory A. Coco Collection Library and Research Center, Gettysburg National Military Park (Sgt. William Kiefer, Co. F, 153rd PA INF Diary, 1862-63)

 

 

Kigar, John:

US-Corporal; Co. A, 68th Regiment Ohio Infantry (vgl. National Park Soldiers M552 Roll 58).

 

6.9.1843 Hancock County/Ohio - † 4.3.1873 Colton, Henry County/Ohio; beerd. Heath-Colton Cemetery, Colton/Ohio; S. v. Bennett Kigar (1812 Virginia - † 1981 Colton/Ohio) und Catherina Shunk Kigar; °° 29.1.1867 in Henry County/Ohio mit Emeline Frederick Adams (1844 – 1914); mustered in on 1.10.1861 in Napoleon/Henry County/Ohio (vgl. www.findagrave.com, Abruf vom 29.6.2016).

 

Photo:

- www.findagrave.com

 

 

Killgore, Gabriel M.:

CS-Captain; 17th Louisiana Infantry; im März 1863 war das Regiment eingesetzt nördlich von Vicksburg (vgl. Bearss: Vicksburg Campaign, a.a.O., S. xv).

 

Documents/Literature::

- Killgore, Gabriel M.: “Vicksburg Diary, the Journal of Gabriel M. Killgore”; edited by Gouglas Maynard. Civil War History, vol. X (1964)

 

 

Kilpatrick, Judson Hugh:

US-MajGen; 1836-81; aus New York; West-Point 1861 (17. von 45); US-Berufsoffizier; Artillerie/Cavalry; 2nd Lt 6.5.1861; Captain 9.5.1861; Kilpatrick diente nach Kriegsausbruch zunächst als Captain in Duryee's Zouaves, and later went on to lead the 2nd New York Cavalry.

 

Col 2nd New York Cavalry; Col Judson H. *Kilpatrick unternimmt am 22./23.7.1862 mit Abteilungen seines 2nd New York Cavalry Regiments (Harris Light Cavalry), der 3rd Indiana Cavalry und der 14th Brooklyn Cavalry (Division BrigGen Rufus King, McDowell's Corps, Pope's Army of Virginia) von Fredericksburg (vgl. Stackpole: From Cedar Mountain, a.a.O., S. 28) aus einen Vorstoß gegen ein Camp der CS-Truppen, welches bei *Carmel Church, VA. (Karte bei Davis Nr. 100.1) vermutet wurde; dort legt er einen Hinterhalt, verfolgt angreifende Rebellen bis kurz vor Hanover Junction, wo er das CS-Camp zerstört und wird schließ­lich von überlegenen Kräften unter Jeb Stuart vertrieben (vgl. Kilpatrick's Report: OR 12 [2] S. 102-103; King's Report: OR 12 [2] S. 102; Mosocco: Chronological Tracking of the Civil War, a.a.O., S. 77). +++ kommt durch einen Kavallerie-Raid gegen die Rebellen­metropole Richmond +++ zu zweifelhaftem Ruhm.

 

Teilnahme an Stoneman's Raid vers. Richmond während der Chancellorsville Campaign (28.4.-6.5.1863) (vgl. Battles and Leaders III, S. 153; Mackowski/White: Chancellorsville's Forgotten Front, p. 27; Glazier: Three Years in three Federal Cavalry, p. 165 ff.).

 

Während Sherman's Atlanta Campaign war Kilpatrick Divisionskommandeur der 3rd Cavalry Division der Army of the Cumberland (vgl. B & L, vol. IV, S. 287). Er klärte am 13.5.1864 aus dem Sugar Valley in Richtung Resaca auf und wurde durch einen Beinschuß verwundet (vgl. Castel: Decision in the West, a.a.O., S. 151).

 

Documents/Literature::

- **Glazier, Willard (2nd New York Cavalry): Three Years in the Federal Cavalry (New York 1872)

- **Moore, James (Surgeon, 9th PA Cavalry): Kilpatrick and Our Cavalry (New York 1865, First Edition

- **Nourse, John A.: Untitled typescript account of Kilpatrick’s Raid in Robert H. G. Minty Papers. US Army Military History Institut, Carlisle, Pennsylvania

- Ohio MOLLUS Sketches of War History Volume Six, Transcribed by Larry Stevens : · Raid of the Union Cavalry, Commanded by General Judson Kilpatrick: Around the Confederate Army in Atlanta, August, 1864, Captain William L. Curry.

 

unterscheide:

Kilpatrick’s Raid around Atlanta August 18-22, 1864.

 

Literatur hierzu:

- Raid of the Union Cavalry, Commanded by General Judson Kilpatrick: Around the Confederate Army in Atlanta, August, 1864 - Captain William L. Curry.

 

Photo:

- Davis / Wiley: Photographic History. Vol: 2: Vicksburg to Appomattox, a.a.O., S. 316 (Gen.s Pleasonton und Kilpatrick im Head­quarter in Castel Murray bei Auburn / Virginia im Oktober 1863

- Brig. Gen. H. Judson Kilpatrick led the disastrous Union cavalry raid on Richmond in late February 1864. (Courtesy of the National Archives)

 

 

Kilpatrick, Robert L.:

US-Col; 5th Ohio Infantry; LtCol 5th Ohio; Teilnahme am Battle of Reseca / Georgia (vgl. Welcher / Ligget: Coburn's Brigade, a.a.O., S. 175).

 

Documents/Literature::

- Ohio MOLLUS Sketches of War History Volume Four , Transcribed by Larry Stevens : The Fifth Ohio Infantry at Resaca - Colonel Robert L. Kilpatrick, U.S.A.

 

 

Kimball, Charles Bell:

US-Pvt; Smith's Battery A, Chicago Illinois Light Artillery (vgl. National Park Soldiers M539 Roll 49).

 

Documents/Literature:

- **Kimball, Charles Bell: History of Battery ‘A’ First Illinois Light Artillery Volunteers (Chicago, 1899)

 

 

Kirkland, Joseph:

US-Captain; zunächst 2ndLt, Co. C, 12th Regiment Illinois Infantry (3 months, 1861) (vgl. National Park Soldiers M539 Roll 49), dann Co. C, 12th Regiment Illinois Infantry (vgl. National Park Soldiers M539 Roll 49).

 

Documents/Literature::

- **Kirkland, Joseph: Papers; Newberry Library, Chicago/Ill.

 

 

Kirkpatrick, Samuel C.:

US-LtCol, 72nd Regiment Indiana Infantry (vgl. Grabstein-Inschrift auf dem Wildcat Cemetery, Lafayette, Tippecanoe County/ In­diana; vgl. www.findagrave.com; vgl. National Park Soldiers M540 Roll 41); zunächst Captain, Co. G, 72nd Regiment Indiana Infan­try (vgl. Magee: Seventy-Second Indiana, a.a.O., S. 16).

 

 

Kilty, A. H.:

US Commander zur See; Kommandeur der USS Mound City; Teilnahme an der Flußschiffschlacht von Plum Point m Battle von Plum Point am 8./9.5.1862 (vgl. Bearss: Hardluck Ironclad, a.a.O., S. 59, 61); hierbei wurde die USS Mound City von der CSS Van Dorn gerammt, schwer beschädigt, flüchtete ins seichte Wasser, wo sie gesunken ist (vgl. Bearss: Hardluck Ironclad, a.a.O., S. 60-62).

 

 

Kimball, Charles B.:

US-1stLt; zunächst First Sergeant, zuletzt 1stLt 1st Independent Battery, Wisconsin Light Artillery (vgl. National Park Soldiers M559 Roll 16).

 

Batteriechef 1st Battery Wisconsin Light Artillery, 9th Division Osterhaus, XIII. Army Corps McClernand während Grant's Cam­paign gegen Vicksburg 1863 (vgl. Bearss: Vicksburg, vol. II, S. 402). Battle of Port Gibson am 1.5.1863 (vgl. Bearss: Vicksburg, vol. II, S. 402).

 

 

Kimball, Nathan:

US-BrigGen; in der Vorkriegszeit Arzt in Loogootee / Indiana (vgl. Thornbrough: Indiana in the Civil War, a.a.O., S. 128).

 

Regiments­kommandeur 14th Indiana Infantry; während der Valley Campaign vom Frühjahr 1862 war Kimball Brigadekommandeur der Briga­de Kimball. Die Brigade gehörte zur Division Shields, Bank’s Army Corps (vgl. OR 12 [I]: 339). Die Brigade bestand aus der 84th Pennsylvania Infantry, 8th Ohio Infantry, 67th Ohio Infantry und 14th Indiana Infantry (vgl. OR 12 [I]: 346); Teilnahme am Battle of Kernstown am 23.3.1862; nach der Verwundung des Divisionskommandeurs übernahm Kimball das Kommando über Shields's Divi­sion (vgl. Kimball’s Report OR 12 [I] 360).

 

Während Lee's Maryland Campaign im September 1862 bestand Kimball's Brigade aus folgenden Regimentern (vgl. Priest: Antie­tam, a.a.O., S. 7): 14th New York, 8th Ohio, 132nd Pennsylvania und 7th West Virginia Infantry.

 

Im Battle von Fredericksburg wurde Kimball erheblich verwundet (vgl. Thornbrough: In­diana in the Civil War, a.a.O., S. 145).

 

 

Kimberly, Robert L.:

US-Col; zunächst LtCol; Co. F&S, 41st Regiment Ohio Infantry; Kimberly trat als 2ndLt in das Regiment (Co. D) ein (vgl. National Park Soldiers M552 Roll 59); später Col 191st Regiment Ohio Infantry (vgl. National Park Soldiers M552 Roll 59).

 

Literatur:

- **Kimberly, Robert and Ephraim Holloway: The 41st Ohio Veteran Volunteer Infantry in the War of the Rebellion, 1861-1865 (Cleve­land 1897, Reprint Blue Acorn); Photos, Full Roster, New Index

 

 

Kimmel, Joseph:

US-Pvt; 51st Ohio Infantry (vgl. Castel: Decision in the West, a.a.O., S. 165); Während Sherman’s Atlanta Campaign 1864 gehörte die 51st Ohio Infantry zur 2nd Brigade BrigGen Walter C. Whitaker, 1st Division MajGen David S. Stanley, IV. Corps MajGen Oli­ver Otis *Howard, MajGen George H. Thomas’ Army of the Cumberland (vgl. B & L vol. IV, S. 284). Teilnahme am Battle of Resaca am 14./15.5.1864. Die Division Stanley war hierbei am äußersten linken Flügel der US-Front eingesetzt, wo sie praktisch in der Luft hing. Gegen diesen Flügel erfolgte der CS-Angriff von Gen Hood mit den Divisionen Stewart und Stevenson mit dem Ziel Sher­man‘s Army zu flankieren und sie von ihren rückwärtigen Verbindungen nach Snake Creek Gap abzuschneiden. Der Angriff wurde erst im letzten Moment, nachdem die US-Front bereits zerbrochen war, durch Captain Simonson‘s Artillery im direkten Beschuß zu­sammen geschossen (vgl. Castel: Decision in the West, a.a.O., S. 163 ff).

 

Documents/Literature::

- **Kimmel, Joseph (Pvt; 51st Ohio Infantry): Reminiscenses Ohio Historical Society, Columbus)

 

 

Kincheloe, W. James:

CS-+++; Co. C, 49th Regiment Virginia Infantry (vgl. Glatthaar: The Common Soldiers Gettysburg Campaign, in: Boritt: The Gettysburg Nobody Knows, a.a.O., S. 10 iVm. S. 224N11).

 

Urkunden/Documents/Literature::

- **Kincheloe, W. James: Diary. 49th Virginia Infantry, Company C Papers, Georgia Department of Archives and History

 

 

King, Benjamin:

CS-Col; 1862 Regimentskommandeur 1st Mississippi Infantry Regiment State Troops (6 Months Service); das Regiment wurde nach Ablauf der Dienstzeit Anfang 1863 ausgemustert (vgl. Sifakis, Compendium of the Confederate Armies, Mississippi, a.a.O., Nr. 131).

 

 

King, Edward:

US-Lieutenant; 66th New York Infantry; King wurde im Spätjahr 1863 wegen Desertion zum Tode verurteilt. Seine Frau Anna S. King wandte sich persönlich an Lincoln, der darauf das Todesurteil suspendierte. King wurde am 13.5.1864 zur Haft auf den Dry Tortugas verurteilt (vgl. Basler: Collected Works of Lincoln, vol. VII, a.a.O., S. 25: Briefe Lincoln's an Meade vom 20.11.1863 mit Anm.).

 

 

King, Huston:

CS-Captain; 2nd Battery Missouri Light Artillery; Teilnahme am Battle of Thompson's Station im März 1863 (vgl. Welcher / Ligget: Coburn's Brigade, a.a.O., S. 56)

 

 

King, James W.:

US-Quartermaster Sergeant; Co. F&S, 11th Regiment Michigan Infantry (1st Organization), zunächst Pvt, Co. A (vgl. National Park Soldiers M545 Roll 22).

 

Documents/Literature::

- Faust, Eric: Conspicious Gallantry: The Civil War and Reconstruction Letters of James W. King, 11tr Michigan Volunteer Infantry (Kent State University Press, 2015)

 

 

King, John M.:

US-Pvt; Co. B, 92nd Regiment Illinois Mounted Infantry (vgl. National Park Soldiers M539 Roll 49); King travelled over 15,000 miles and fought in 33 engagements; a newspaper owner and editor, he left a meticulous diary, rare for the enlisted man of the time

 

Documents/Literature::

- **King, John M. (Pvt, 92nd Illinois Mounted Infantry): Three Years with the 92nd Illinois (Stackpole Books); 288 pp; Diary edited by Claire Swedberg

 

 

King, Porter:

CS-Captain; Co G 4th Alabama Infantry; dropped 21.4.1862

 

 

King, Rufus:

US-BrigGen; Westpoint-Absolvent Jahrgang 1833; King schied auf eigenen Wunsch aus der Armee aus und begann eine Zeitungs­karriere. Er war im März 1861 designierter Botschafter für die "Pontifical States", verzichtete aber auf die Position in der Absicht, als General für Wisconsin im Bürgerkrieg zu dienen. Er wurde am 17.5.1861 zum BrigGen ernannt (Anm. Gaff: If this is War, a.a.O., S. 86 erwähnt bereits am 16.5.1861 "General Rufus King, commander of the First Brigade of Wisconsin active Militia") und war ab Ok­tober 1861 Kommandeur der *Iron Brigade (vgl. Nolan MilAmerik5 S. IX); zum Divisionskommandeur von King's Division am 13.3.1862 befördert.

 

King war im Juli 1862 Divisionskommandeur im Corps McDowell's, Pope's neu aufgestellte Army of Virginia; seine Division stand bei Fredericksburg und bedrohte, rechts neben Pope eingesetzt, mit diesem zusammen die wichtige Virginia Central Railroad (vgl. Freeman, Lee's Lieutenants, a.a.O., vol. 2, S. 1). Pope gab den Befehl, King's Cavalry zur Zerstörung der Virginia Central Railroad zwischen Richmond und dem Shenandoah Valley (vgl. Stackpole: From Cedar Mountain, a.a.O., S. 28).

 

Er ordnete am 22.7.1862 eine Cavalry Aufklärung unter Col. Judson H. *Kilpatrick gegen *Carmel Church an. Col Judson H. *Kil­patrick unternimmt am 22./23.7.1862 mit Abteilungen seines 2nd New York Cavalry Regiments (Harris Light Cavalry), der 3rd In­diana Cavalry und der 14th Brooklyn Cavalry (Division BrigGen Rufus King, McDowell's Corps, Pope's Army of Virginia) von Fre­dericksburg (vgl. Stackpole: From Cedar Mountain, a.a.O., S. 28) aus einen Vorstoß gegen ein Camp der CS-Truppen, welches bei Carmel Church vermutet wurde; dort legt er einen Hinterhalt, verfolgt angreifende Rebellen bis kurz vor Hanover Junction, wo er das CS-Camp zerstört und wird schließlich von überlegenen Kräften unter Jeb Stuart vertrieben (vgl. Kilpatrick's Report: OR 12 [2} S. 102-103; King's Report: OR 12 [2] S. 102; Mosocco: Chronological Tracking of the Civil War, a.a.O., S. 77).

 

Vom 5.-8.8.1862 führte die Division King mehrere Expeditions nach Frederick's Hall Station, Va. und Spotsylvania Court House, Va, durch (vgl. King's Report, OR 12 [2] S. 121-22). Die Expedition nach Frederick's Hall Court House wurde von der Brigade Gibbon durchgeführt (vgl. King's Report, OR 12 [2] S. 122; Gibbon's Report OR 12 [2] S. 122-23).

 

Während des Battle of Brawner's Farm am 29.8.1862 war King schwer krank; er hatte am 23.8.1862 einen epileptischen Anfall erlit­ten und war dienstunfähig, blieb jedoch auf eigenen Wunsch im Kommando, mußte allerdings in einer Ambulanz gefahren und vom Divisionsarzt betreut werden. Dadurch war sein dienstältester Brigadekommandeur BrigGen John Hatch nicht im Stande die Division zu kommandieren, die infolge von King's Gesundheitszustand praktisch führerlos war (vgl. Gaff: Brave Men's Tears, a.a.O., S. 33).

 

King's Division bestand aus vier Brigaden:

- Brigade John Hatch

- Brigade Abner Doubleday

- Brigade Marsena R. Patrick

- Brigade John Gibbon

 

Kurz nach 2nd Bull Run wurde der als unpopulär bezeichnete General abgelöst (vgl. Gramm, Kent: „They must be made on Iron“. The Ascent of South Mountain; in: Nolan/Vipond: Giants in their Black Hats. Essays on the Iron Brigade, a.a.O, S. 14). King wird als unpopulär geschildert (Gramm; in: Nolan / Vipond, a.a.O, S. 14).

 

Documents/Literature::

- Theron W. Haight: "King's Division: Fredericksburg to Manassas," War Papers, Wisconsin Commandery, Military Order of the Loy­al Legion of the United States [Milwaukee: Burdick, Armitage and Allen, 1896, Vol. II, S. 350/51)

 

 

King, William:

CS-Captain; King's Company, Virginia Light Artillery (Saltville Artillery) (vgl. National Park Soldiers M382 Roll 32)

 

 

King, William S.:

US-Surgeon; 1862 Medical Director des V. Army Corps Banks; eingesetzt im Shenandoah Valley (vgl. OR 12 (I) 344-345: King's Re­port über das Battle von Kernstown am 23.3.1862).

 

 

Kinnear, John Ritchey:

US-Sergeant; Co. A, 86th Regiment Illinois Infantry (vgl. National Park Soldiers M539 Roll 49).

 

Documents/Literature::

- **Kinnear, John R.: History of the Eighty-sixth Regiment Illinois Infantry During Its Term of Service (Chicago: Tribune Company's Book and Job Printing Office, 1866)

 

 

Kinzer, William T.:

CS-Sergeant;: Co. L, 4th Regiment Virginia Infantry (vgl. National Park Soldiers M382 Roll 32).

 

Documents/Literature::

- **Kinzer Diary: Typescript of unpublished Diary of William T. Kinzer, a member of the 4th Virginia Infantry, primarily covering 1862. West Virginia and Regional Collection. West Virginia University Libraries, Morgantown, West Virginia

 

 

Kirby, Isaac M.:

US-Col; 101st Ohio Infantry

 

1864 während Sherman’s Atlanta Campaign gehörte die 101st Ohio Infantry zum IV. Corps MajGen Oliver Otis *Howard (vgl. B & L vol. IV, S. 284), 1st Division MajGen David S. Stanley, 1st Brigade BrigGen Charles Cruft in MajGen George H. Thomas Army of the Cumberland. Das Regiment nahm am 8.5.1864 teil an der bewaffneten Aufklärung gegen Buzzard Roost Gap nördlich Dalton entlang der Strecke der Western & Atlantic Railroad (vgl. Castel: Decision in the West, a.a.O., S. 147)

 

Documents/Literature::

- Day, L. W.: Story of the One Hundred and First Ohio Infantry (Cleveland: W. M. Bayne Printing Co., 1894)

- Read, Ira: "The Campaign from Chattanooga to Atlanta as Seen by a Federal Soldier," ed. Richard B. Harwell, Georgia Historical Quarterly 25 (1941)

 

 

Kirby, Thomas B.:

US-Lt; Co. F, 20th Regiment Connecticut Infantry (vgl. National Park Service M535 Roll 9). On 27.1.1863 Lt Kirby was detailed as Adjutant of the Artillery Brigade of the 1st Div., 12th Corps Slocum, Army of the Potomac (vgl. Storrs: 20tr Connecticut Infantry, a.a.O., p. 43).

 

 

Kircher, Henry A.:

US-+++; 36th Illinois Infantry während der Pea Ridge Campaign (vgl. Shea / Hess: Pea Ridge, a.a.O., S. 74 mit S. 353 Anm. 34; ).

 

 

Kircher, Henry A.:

US-Sergeant; Co. A, 9th Regiment Illinois Infantry (3 months, 1861) (vgl. National Park Soldiers M539 Roll 49); später US-Captain; Co. ACK, 12th Regiment Missouri Infantry (vgl. National Park Soldiers M390 Roll 26).

 

Kircher was born in 1841, one often children of Joseph and Augusta Kircher, German natives who migrated to western Illinois in the 1830s. Kircher grew up in a closely knit family and attended Oakfield Academy, near St. Louis, one of the first German-American schools west of the Mississippi. He became a machinist by trade and was working in his hometown when the first shock waves of Sumter reached Illinois. Kircher and several of his German friends first joined the 9th Illinois as three-months recruits, but he quickly became disillusioned by the political infighting that he visualized would be a barrier to his advancement in the regiment. Because of this disillusionment and the antagonism that developed between the Germans and Americans, he and his Belleville neighbors decided to cross the Mississippi and join the newly formed 12th Missouri, where in time 84 percent of the regiment would be made up of German-Americans. Kircher, who eventually rose to the rank of captain, and the men of the 12th Missouri took part in several im­portant campaigns during their three years service, including Pea Ridge, Chickasaw Bluffs, the siege of Vicksburg, and finally Look­out Mountain. Kircher's letters, most of them written to his mother, end abruptly in November, 1863, following the battle of Ring­gold, Georgia, where he received wounds that caused him to lose both an arm and a leg. Following the war Kircher returned home a hero and despite his handicap became one of Belleville's leading citizens in business and politics, eventually serving two terms as mayor. Kircher was married in 1880 to Bertha Engelmann and had three children. He died on May 1, 1908 (vgl. Indiana Magazine of History, Indiana Historical Society, Indianapolis, by Thomas K. Krasean)

 

Captain Henry A. Kircher und sein Andel und sein Schwager Captain Henry A. *Kircher waren zunächst Soldiers, Co. A, 9th Regiment Illinois Infantry (3 months, 1861) (vgl. National Park Soldiers M539 Roll 2), Kircher als Sergeant, Andel als Corporal.

 

Documents/Literature::

- Engelmann / Kircher Collection, Illinois State Historical Library Springfield

- Hess, Earl J.: “A German in the Yankee Fatherland: The Civil War Letters of Henry A. Kircher (Kent, Ohio: Kent University Press, 1983)

- Engelmann / Kircher Collection, Illinois State Historical Library Springfield

 

 

Kirk, Charles H.:

US-+++; 15th Pennsylvania Cavalry

 

Documents/Literature::

- Kirk, Charles H.: History of the Fifteenth Pennsylvania Cavalry which was recruited and known as the Anderson Cavalry in the Re­bellion of1861-1865 (Philadelphia 1906); 1st Edition; 787 pp; Rosters; Illustrations; Map in Rear Pocket; Photos. This unit saw ac­tion at Antietam, Stone River, Nashville, Chickamauga, Missionary Ridge, and other battles and skirmishes in Alabama, Georgia, Ten­nessee and North Carolina

 

 

Kirkland, Richard R.:

CS-First Sergeant; Co. E&G, 2nd Regiment South Carolina Infantry (vgl. National Park Soldiers M381 Roll 18); nach dem Battle of Gettysburg some of the wounded Members of the US-Irish Brigade received succor from Sergeant Richard Kirkland of the 2nd South Carolina, who crawled out between the lines on the afternoon of 14.12.1862, with water for those Yankees who still survived (vgl. Seagrave: History of the Irish Brigade, a.a.O., Vorsatz).

 

 

Kirkland, William W.:

CS-BrigGen; zunächst Col. 21st North Carolina Infantry; das Regiment gehörte 1862 zu Isaac *Trimble's Brigade Division Ewell (vgl. Pfanz: Ewell, a.a.O., S. 171). Das Regiment stand Anfang Mai 1862 bei *Fisher's Gap in den Blue Ridge Mountain (vgl. Pfanz: Ewell, a.a.O., S. 171).

 

Kirkland übernahm *Pettigrew's Brigade nach dessen Tod am 17.7.1863 aufgrund schwerster Verwundung im Battle von Falling Wa­ters am 14.7.1863 (vgl. Wilson: Pettigrew, a.a.O., S. 77). Kirkland was a good battlefield commander but not a inspirational leader. He was wounded twice while commanding Pettigrew's brigade and thus spent months reconvalescing. His influence on the character of the unit was minimal (vgl. Hess: Lee's Tar Heels, a.a.O., S. xvi).

 

 

Kirkpatrick, James J.:

CS-Sergeant, Co. C, 16th Mississippi Infantry Regiment (vgl. National Park Soldiers M232 Rill12; vgl. Tanner: Stonewall in the Val­ley, a.a.O., S. 575).

 

Documents/Literature::

- Kirkpatrick, James J.: Diary. Unpublished diary edited and annotated in "The Civil War Diary of James J. Kirkpatrick, 16th Missis­sippi Infantry, CSA," a thesis by Eugene Matthew Ott, Jr., Texas A&M University, 1984

 

 

Kirwan, Thomas:

US-Pvt; 17th Massachusetts Infantry

 

Documents/Literature::

- Kirwan, Thomas (Pvt, 17th Mass Vols): Memorial History of the Seventeenth Regiment Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry in the Ci­vil War from 1861-1865 (Salem, 1911, 1st Edition)

 

 

Kitchen, Thomas:

CS-Corporal, Co. I, 8th Regiment Georgia Infantry (State Guards) (vgl. National Park Soldiers M226 Roll 35).

 

Photo:

Pvt Thomas Kitchen (Library of Congress,  LC-B8184-10604)

 

 

Klaeden, Adolph W. (D):

CS-1stLt; Col. E, 16th Regiment Texas Infantry (Flournoy's) (vgl. National Park Soldiers M227 Roll 20); dort als A. E. Klaeden auf­geführt; dagegen bei Kamphoefner/Helbich: German in the Civil War, a.a.O., S. 470n35 als „Adolph (A. W.) Klaeden.

 

In 1860 Adolph Klaeden (A. W.) Klaeden, born in Havelberg, was working as a clerk and became first lieutenant in Col. E, 16th Re­giment Texas Infantry (Flournoy's; his sister was married to Louis *Lehmann's brother Adolph (vgl. Kamphoefner/Helbich: German in the Civil War, a.a.O., S. 470n35).

 

Im Battle of Masura/Louisiana (Red River Campaign) am 15.5.1864 geriet Klaeden bei Marks­ville in Kriegsgefangenschaft und wurde in einem Gefange­nenlager in New Orleans inhaftiert (vgl. Brief Lehmann an „Beloved Friederieke'“ vom 15.6.1864, abgedruckt bei Kamphoefner/Hel­bich: German in the Civil War, a.a.O., S. 469-470: „The officers, including A. Klaeden, are in a special house in the town“).

 

 

Klein, Johann August „Augustus“:

US-Lt (www.findagrave.com); Sergeant, Co. A, 6th Regiment Wisconsin Infantry (Iron Brigade); Klein trat als Pvt in das Regiment ein; originally filed under Augustus Kleine (vgl. National Park Soldiers M559 Roll 16).

 

Co E 6th Wisconsin Infantry (vgl. Martin: Gettysburg, a.a.O., S. 126)

 

„August Klein was born in Hamburg, Germany, April 10, 1841 and came to America at an early age and settled in Wisconsin. On March 21, 1865, he was married to Miss Lucretia Birum at Baraboo, Wis., and to them were born nine children, five of whom survi­ve him, who were a comfort and a joy to their father in his declining years. They are Misses Belle, Lottie, Amy, and Willie and Carl Klein and Mrs. George Drew. He leaves three brothers and one sister, Chris and Charley Klein of Rock Valley, and Adolph Klein of Lester and Mrs. J. Hirschinger of this place.

Mr. Klein was an old soldier and enlisted in Co. A 6th, Wisconsin infantry on August 28, 1861, and was immediately sent to the front where he had seen some hard fighting. He took part in the engagements at South Mountain, Antietam, Fredericksburg, Gettysburg, The Wilderness and Petersburg. At the last named battle he received a terrible wound after 3 years and 10 months service in the de­fense of this country. He went in as first sergeant and at the close of the war the governor of Wisconsin breveted him first lieutenant for his conspicious bravery on the field of battle. At the time of his death he was commander of the G.A.R. organization of this place.

In June 1869 August Klein took up a homestead in Lyon County and the year following moved with his family onto the same. Seven years ago Mr. Klein entered into partnership with M.B. Smith in the hardware business, but sold out after a short time. Three years ago together with Robt. Roundtree he purchased the Rock Valley Mills and a year later incorporated under the name of the Rock Val­ley Mill Company of which he is president and the heaviest stockholder. He was a holder of stock in The Register until quite recent­ly“ (zitiert bei www.findagrave.com)

10.5.1841 Hamburg/Germany - † 24.1.1895 Sioux Falls / South Dacota während eines Besuchs bei seinem Schwager C. A. Birum; beerd. Valley View Cemetery, Rock Valley/Sioux County/Iowa; °° Lucretia Jane Birum Klein (1844-1918) (www.findagrave.com).

 

Photo:

US-Sergeant Johann August „Augustus“ Klein (www.findagrave.com).

 

Documents/Literature::

- Klein, Augustus: War Letter (über die Ereignisse am 1.7.1863 bei Gettysburg am Bloody *Railroad Cut; Privately owned (zitiert nach Nolan: Iron Brigade, a.a.O., S. 386)

 

 

Klement, Frank L.:

Historiker; 1908-1994. After teaching school district in northeastern Wisconsin around the state he received his PhD (Doctor of Phi­losophy) in History from the University of Wisconsin in 1946. He taught briefly at Lake Forest College and at Eau Claire State Tea­chers College and joined the history department at Marquette University in 1948. Before his retirement twenty-seven years later with the rank of Professor Emeritus, Clement served as department chair from 1956-1958 and received the Award for Teaching Excel­lence in 1965. He also served as President Phi Alpha Theta, the international Honor Society for History (1973-1974), as President of the Lincoln Fellowship of Wisconsin (1960), in many official capacities for the Civil War Round Table of Milwauckee/Wisconsin and on numerous editorial boards and national committees (vgl. Einleitung zu Rable: News from Fredericksburg, a.a.O., Frontispiz).

 

"Klement, der führende Historiker der *Cop­perheads, hält die meisten Beweise für deren heimliche Komplizenschaft mit den Rebel­len für ein Gespinst aus 'Gerüchten, Vermu­tungen und freie Erfindung', das von den Republikanern aus politischen Gründen in die Welt gesetzt worden sei. Aber auch Klement räumt ein, daß mehrere Friedensdemokraten 1864 von Agenten der Konföderation Geld und Waffen bekommen haben" (vgl. McPherson: Für die Freiheit, S. 943 Anm. 25).

 

Documents/Literature::

- **Klement, Frank L.: The Limits of Dissent: Clement L. Vallandigham and the Civil War (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1970)

- **Klement, Frank L.: The Copperheads of the Middle West (Chicago: Chicago University of Chicago Press, 1960)

- **Klement, Frank L.: Dark Lanterns. Secret Political Societies, Conspiracies, and Treason Trials in the Civil War, Baton Rouge, 1984 (McPherson: Für die Freiheit, S. 943 Anm. 25 beurteilt Klements Auffassung wie folgt: "Klement, der führende Historiker der *Cop­perheads, hält die meisten Beweise für deren heimliche Komplizenschaft mit den Rebellen für ein Gespinst aus 'Gerüchten, Vermu­tungen und freie Erfindung', das von den Republikanern aus politischen Gründen in die Welt gesetzt worden sei. Aber auch Klement räumt ein, daß mehrere Friedensdemokraten 1864 von Agenten der Konföderation Geld und Waffen bekommen haben")

 

 

Klepser, Andrew J.:

US-Captain; zunächst Second Lieutenant, Co. A, 72nd Indiana Infantry (vgl. National Park Soldiers M540 Roll 41); Klepser wurde am 28.7.1862 zum Second Lieutenant, Co. A, 72nd Indiana Infantry gewählt (vgl. Magee: Seventy-Second Indiana, a.a.O., S. 9).

 

 

Knap, Joseph M.:

US-Major; Captain and Batteriechef von Knap's Independent Battery E, Pennsylvania Light Artillery (vgl. National Park Soldiers M554 Roll 16). This unit fought at Manassas, Cedar Mountain, Antietam, Gettysburg, Chancellorsville, The Atlanta Campaigns and throughout the Carolinas.

 

Im Sommer 1861 he joined Co. L, 28th Regiment Pennsylvania Infantry as a lieutenant. The following october he was promoted to captain and was placed in command of the newly formed Battery E, which was composed largely of excess soldiers from the over­strengthened 28th Pennsylvania Infantry (vgl. Frassanito: Antietam Photographic Legacy, a.a.O., S. 98).

 

Organizer and First Commanding officer of Independent Battery "E" (Civil War-Union Army-Light Artillery). June 1861 entered Union Army as 1st Lieut with Company L. 28th Pennsylvania Regt. Discharged 1 November 1861 to accept Captaincy of Indepen­dent Battery E, Pa. Artillery. October 1861 promoted to Captain in Battery of Light Artillery in Geary's Bde. (Bates)
Participation in Major Battles: Cedar Mountain, Antietam, Chancellorsville, Rappahanock, Sulpher Springs, South Mountain. Resi­gned from Battery May 16,1863. In June 1864 promoted to Major, Organized a Battalion of Artillery / Penn Reserve, until Sept 1864. Commanded three forts in the Defenses of Washington DC and assisted in the repulse of Gen. Early. Placed in charge of the Fort Pitt Foundry at Pittsburg for 3 years (vgl. www.findagrave.com).

 

30.12.1837 Brownville, Jefferson County/New York - † 21.6.1920; beerd. Catskill Village Cemetery, Catskill Greene County/New York; °° 1.9.1864 in Catskill/NY mit Sophia Hale Day Knap (vgl. www.findagrave.com).

 

Photo:

- Joseph M. Knap (vgl. www.findagrave.com).

- Frassanito: Antietam Photographic Legacy, a.a.O., S. 97: Joseph M. Knap in 'napoleonischer Haltung'

- Frassanito: Antietam Photographic Legacy, a.a.O., S. 94: Knap's Battery E, Pennsylvania Light Artillery bei Antietam (vermutlich am 19.9.1862)

 

 

Documents/Literature::

- Brady, James P. Brady: Hurrah for the Artillery (Knap's Independent Battery E, Pennsylvania Light Artillery) (Thomas Publications, Gettysburg). Compiled from letters, Journals and diaries of key battery members; well illustrated narrative allows reader to experi­ence battles, and marches; 464 pp; Detailed Maps, Photos, Rosters

 

 

Knapp, John:

30.6.1816 - † 11.11.1888; beerd. St Louis Cavalry Cemetary and Mausoleum, St. Louis(vgl. http://www.findagrave.com/, Abruf vom 7.6.2015).; US-Col 1st Missouri Volunteer Militia, und später der 8th und 11th Missouri Militia Cavalry (vgl. Banasik, Michel E. (ed.): Missouri Brothers in Gray. The Reminiscenses and Letters of William J. Bull and John P. Bull, Iowa City 1998, S. 10 Anm. 21).

 

Knapp war Herausgeber des unionsfreundlichen St. Louis Missouri Republican und Col 1st Missouri Volunteer Militia. 1861 bei Camp Jackson gefangengenommen, wurde er im Spätjahr 1861 ausgetauscht noch vor dem Allgemeinen Austausch vom Oktober 1861, weshalb er auch nicht in den Listen über den allgemeinen Austausch aufgeführt ist. Knapp schloß sich nun der Sache der Uni­on an und kommandierte die 8th und 11th Missouri Militia Cavalry. Knapp diente außerdem als Volunteer Aid während Governor Price's 1864 Missouri Raid (vgl. Banasik, Michel E. (ed.): Missouri Brothers in Gray. The Reminiscenses and Letters of William J. Bull and John P. Bull, Iowa City 1998, S. 10 Anm. 21; vgl. OR 34, pt. 4, 87; OR 41 pt. 1; OR, Series 2, vol. 1, 132, 553-557).).

 

Knapp's military service began in 1840 when he enlisted as a private in a St. Louis militia company. During the Mexican War, he ser­ved as captain, Company C, 1st Missouri Volunteers. In the fall of 1860 he commanded the 1st Regiment of Missouri militia as part of the Southwest Missouri militia as part of the Southwest Expedition to the Kansas border. He also led his regiment at Camp Jack­son in May 1861 when the command was captured by Federal forces under General Lyon. After Camp Jackson, Knapp's service was the Union cause. He was appointed by Governor Gamble to command the 8th Enrolled Missouri Militia & later by Governor Hall to lead the 13th Provisional Regiment. He supervised a brigade of Missouri Union militia in the pursuit of General Price during his Misso­uri raid in 1864 (vgl. http://www.findagrave.com/, Abruf vom 7.6.2015).

 

°° mit Virginia Wright Knapp (9.2.1824 St. Louis/MO - † 16.8.1906 Washington County, Rhode Island; Tochter von Joseph Wright und Cynthia Belcher Wright) (vgl. http://www.findagrave.com/, Abruf vom 7.6.2015).

 

 

Knight, Charles W.:

CS-LtCol; zunächst First Leutentant; Co. F, 17th Regiment North Carolina Infantry (vgl. National Park Soldiers M230 Roll 22); Teil­nahme am Battle von Fort Clark und Fort Hatteras auf den North Carolina Inlets am 28.8.1862; bei der Beschießung von Fort Hat­teras erlitt Lieutenant Knight eine schwere Verwundung am Arm und wurde mit einem Steamer über den Sound zur ärztlichen Be­handlung transportiert (vgl. Bericht von E. J. Wood [ed], Year Book Pasquotank Historical Society, 2: 110-11; abgedruckt bei (vgl. Yearns/Harrett: North Carolina Civil War Documentary, a.a.O., S. 30). Später Captain und dann LtCol, Co. F, 31st Regiment North Carolina Infantry (vgl. National Park Soldiers M230 Roll 22).

 

Als Captain, Co. F, 31st Regiment North Carolina Infantry geriet Charles W. Knight bei Roanoke Island in Kriegsgefangenschaft und wurde später ausgetauscht. He was promoted LtCol in June 1863. Knight survived the war and was paroled in April 1865 (vgl. Munson, E. B. ([ed.]: confederate Incognito: The Civil War Reports of „Long Grabs“ a.k.a. Murdoch John McSween, 26th and 35th North Carolina Infantry, a.a.O., S. 250, Anm. 49)

 

Urkunden/Documents/Literature::

- Report of Colonel Charles W. Knight, O.R. Ser. I, Vol. 28, Pt. 1, 417-418 (Battle of Wilmington/NC Febr. 1865) und O.R. Series 1, XXVIII, part 1, 418-419, 524 (Attack on Battery Wagner, Morris Island / SC am 18.7.1863)

 

 

Knight, Joseph F.:

US-Pvt; Co. H, 32nd Regiment Maine Infantry (vgl. National Park Soldiers M543 Roll 12)

 

Urkunden/Documents/Literature::

- Knight, Joseph F.: Letter, 25 July 1864, signed "Frank" from Joseph F. Knight of Company H, 32nd Maine Infantry, to his sister thanking her for the money she has sent him, noting that Colonel Mark Fernald Wentworth (1820-1897) had joined the regiment, and commenting on camp life. Also includes a postscript, written after 30 July 1864, by Sergeant Edward R. Harmon informing the recipient that her brother is missing and presumed captured by the Confederate army during the battle of the Crater at Petersburg, Virginia (vgl. Library of Virginia, Richmond/VA, Archives and Manuscripts Room, Manuscript 38836)

 

 

Knipe, Joseph Farmer:

US-BrigGen; 1823-1901 aus Pennsylvania; enlisted man im Mexican War, später erfolgreicher Kaufmann; 31.10.1861 Col. 46th Pennsylvania Infantry, ++++Battle of Cedar Mountain, dort verwundet (vgl. Battles and Leaders Vol. II., S. 496); in der Gettysburg Campaign übernahm Knipe die aussichtslose Aufgabe mit 1000 Mann Miliz den Vormarsch Lee's auf Chambersburg zu verzögern (vgl. Chambersburg: "Southern Revenge", a.a.O., S. 76).

 

Photo:

Chambersburg: "Southern Revenge", a.a.O., S. 76

 

 

Knobelsdorff, Charles:

US-Col, 44th Illinois Infantry; im Frühjahr 1862 gehörte das Regiment zur 1st Brigade Col Peter J. Osterhaus in 1st Division Peter J. Osterhaus in Samuel Ryan Curtis' Army of the South West. Besetzung von Springfield Missouri am 13. Januar 1862, Battle of Pea Ridge (vgl. Shea / Hess, Pea Ridge, a.a.O., S. 331).

 

 

Knox, Andrew:

US-2ndLt; Co. B,I&M, 1st Regiment Connecticut Heavy Artillery (vgl. National Park Soldiers M535 Roll 9).

 

Urkunden/Documents/Literature::

- Know, Andrew: Letter, 29 January 1865, from Andrew Knox (b. 1835) of the 1st Connecticut Heavy Artillery Regiment, stationed at Battery #20 near Petersburg, Virginia, to his wife Sarah Knox (b. ca. 1842) in Danbury, Connecticut, telling her how much he loves and misses her and how he hopes to see her soon. Knox also informs her of some of the military activity in front of his regiment. Includes a map of Battery #20 (vgl. Library of Viginia, Richmond/VA, Archives and Manuscripts Room, Manuscript 41187)

 

 

Knox, Thomas W.:

US-Journalist; Reporter des New York Herald: Knox nahm teil am Gefecht in Booneville / Missouri am 17.6.1861 (vgl. Andrews: The North reports the Civil War, a.a.O., S. 120) und am Battle of Wilson's Creek am 10.8.1861 (vgl. Andrews: The North reports the Civil War, a.a.O., S. 121-122)

 

Documents/Literature::

- Knox, T. W.: Camp-Fire and Cotton Field (Philadelphia and Cincinnati, 1865)

 

 

Koch, Heinrich:

US-+++; 43rd Illinois Infantry; Koch stammte aus Rockenhausen Kukatzki, Bernhard: "Pfälzer im Amerikanischen Bürgerkrieg", Teil II, in: Pfälzisch-Rheinische Familienkunde 2003, Heft 5, S. 298).

 

 

Koenig, Paul:

US-Captain; Co. E, 68th New York Infantry (vgl. Annual Report of the Adjutant General of the State of New York: Roster 68th New York Infantry; Anm. nicht genannt bei National Park Soldiers).

 

Age, 25 years. Enrolled at New York city, to serve three years, and mustered in as first sergeant, Co. E, August 10, 1801; as second lieutenant, Co. G, August 11, 1861; as first lieutenant, January 17, 1862; as captain, Co. D, September 22, 1862; wounded in action, August 31, 1863, at White Sulphur Springs, Ya.; died of bis wounds, September 26, 1863; prior service in English army. Commissio­ned second lieutenant, December 30, 1861, with rank from August 10, 1861; original; first lieutenant, May 23, 1802, with rank from January 17, 1862, vice M. P. Yonder Holle, promoted; captain, September 30, 1862, with rank from September 22, 1862, vice Carl Vogel, promoted (vgl. Annual Report of the Adjutant General of the State of New York: Roster 68th New York Infantry).

 

Anm.: Alexander Dupré erwähnt an seinem Brief an „Liebe Eltern“ vom 15.8.1861 einen „First Lieutenant von König“ vom 68th Re­giment New York Infantry (vgl. Kamphoefner/Helbich: Germans in the Civil War: The Letters They Wrote Home, a.a.O., S. 47). Hierbei könnte es sich um Paul Koenig handeln, der allerdings im August 1861 Second Lt war. Im Regiment gab es noch einen Cap­tain Robert Koenig, der im August 1861 als Captain in das Regiment eintrat). Dupré schreibt zu diesem: „He claims to have been an officer, but there is no trace of it, nothing but connections, all humbug […]“.Emile Dupré erwähnt in seinem Brief 8.5.1862 an „Dear Parents“: V. König is a major and his brother Paul will be a captain soon“ (vgl. Kamphoefner/Helbich: Germans in the Civil War: The Letters They Wrote Home, a.a.O., S. 53).

 

 

Koerner, Gustave:

US-Politiker; 1809-1896; stammt aus Deutschland; der bedeutendste Führer der Deutschen im St. Clair County / Illinois (gegenüber von St. Louis). Koerner war Lieutenant Governor von Illinois von 1853-1857; ursprünglich Democrat, er wechselte während seiner Amtszeit zur Republican Party (vgl. Morrison: "History of the 9th Regiment Illinois Volunteer Infantry", a.a.O., S. ix; Cole: The Era of the Civil War, a.a.O., S. 25).

 

Documents/Literature::

- Koerner, Gustave: Memoirs of Gustave Koerner, 1809-1896. Life sketches written at the suggestion of his children. Edited by Tho­mas J. McCormack, 2 volumes (Cedar Rapids, Iowa, 1909)

- McCormack, Thomas J. (ed): Memoirs of Gustave Koerner (Cedar Rapis: Torch Press, 1909)

 

 

Koltes, John A.:

US-Col; Regimentskomandeur 73rd Regiment Pennsylvania Infantry (vgl. National Park Soldiers M554 Roll 16).

 

Born in Prussia in 1823; fled to US after the failed revolutions of 1848; Mexican War veteran, then joined US Marines; outspoken re­presentative of immigrants in the US; raised the 73d NYSV; KIA Aug. 30, 1862 at Gainesville, VA, never having received the briga­dier general's commission that was on its way to him. He was buried at Glenwood Cemetery in Philadelphia and reinterment was in Glenwood Memorial Gardens Cemetery. September 5. Funeral of Col. John A. Koltes. soldier, born in Rhenish Prussia in 1823; died near Gainesville, Virginia, 30 August, 1862 (2nd Bull Run). He came to this country in 1846, and served throughout the Mexican war as orderly sergeant. After its close he became an officer of the marine corps, and was subsequently employed in the United States mint in Philadelphia. At the opening of the civil war he raised and commanded a regiment of Germans. He was killed at the battle of Gainesville, Virginia. He had been acting brigadier general in General Adolph Von Steinwehr's division for four months, and his fri­ends who had secured his promotion to this rank were carrying his commission, when they met his body as it was borne from the battle field (vgl. www.findagrave.com).

 

Photo:

Col John A. Koltes (vgl. www.findagrave.com)

 

 

Kop, Peter:

US-Captain, Co. F, 27th Indiana Infantry. Am 12.9.1862 rückte das Regiment in das nach Räumung der CS-Truppen während Lee's Maryland Campaign frei gewordene *Frederick City / Maryland ein. Zwei seiner Soldaten fanden hierbei Lee's Gesamtbefehl Nr. 191 vom 9.9.1862 für die Maryland Campaign (vgl. Sears: Landscape Turned Red, a.a.O., S. 112; *Colgrove, Silas: The Finding of Lee's Lost Order; Battles & Leaders II 603; *Bloss, John M.: "Antietam and the Lost Order," War Talks in Kansas, Kansas Commandery of the Military Order of the Loyal Legion, I, S. 84-88; Datzman, Richard Carroll: "Who found Lee's Lost Order?" [1973]).

 

 

Kountz, William J.:

US-Navy-Captain, verantwortlich für den Schiffstransport bei Angriff auf Forts Donelson and Henry. Kountz war äußerst unbeliebt, weshalb es Petitionen der ihm unterstellten Kapitäne bei U.S. Grant gab, Kountz abzulösen. Grant war gezwungen, um seine An­griffsvorbereitungen zu machen, sein Arbeitszimmer in den Wohnraum seiner Frau in Cairo zu verlegen (vgl. Grant, Julia Dent: Me­moirs, a.a.O., S. 96). Gen. Rawlins, Grant's Stabschef in Cairo warf den immer wieder intervenierenden Kountz aus dem Stabsgebäu­de heraus (a.a.O., S. 96). Kountz war hierüber sehr verärgert und verbreitete aus Rache die Behauptung, Grant und sein Stab sei be­trunken. Col. *Hillyer ließ Kountz daraufhin unter Arrest stellen, Grant ordnete jedoch die sofortige Freilassung an (a.a.O., S. 96). Am 14.1.1862 notiert U.S. Grant, er habe (erneut?) die Festnahme von Kountz befohlen, da sich dieser ungehorsam und streitsüchtig erwiesen habe. Hillyer nahm aufgrund dieses Befehls Kountz unter Arrest bis zu diesen freiwilligem Rücktritt im April 1862. Grant erhob keine förmliche Anklage gegen Kountz, dieser allerdings erhob ernste Vorwürfe gegen Grant wegen angeblicher Trunkenheit (a.a.O., S. 115 Anm. 20 m.w.N.).

 

 

Kraesig, Frank:

CS-Pvt; Co. K, 14th Regiment Louisiana Infantry (vgl. National Park Soldiers M378 Roll 16); original filed under 'Kraeszick'

 

 

Kress, John A.:

US-LtCol, Co. F&S, 94th Regiment New York Infantry (vgl. National Park Soldiers M551 Roll 79); später Stabsoffizier in Gen. Wadsworth Division in Gettysburg (vgl. Herdegen: The Men Stood like Iron, a.a.O., S. 5 und Anm. 8 S. 219; Martin: Gettysburg, a.a.O., S. 73; Gaff: On Many a Bloody Field: Four Years in the Iron Briga­de, a.a.O., S. 256).

 

Am Morgen des 1.7.1863 LtCol John Kress, a staff officer from the 1st Division, I Corps rode up to Gen. Buford's headquarters. A he sent his own officers into action, Buford asked Kress pointedly (spitz), „What are you doing here, sir?“ When Kress explained that he had been sent ahead to locate some shoes for his division, Buford told him abruptedly that he batter get back to his outfit immediate­ly. „Why, what's the matter, General?“. Before Buford could answer, the sound of a single canon sounded to the west. Mounting his horse, Buford said: „That's the matter“ (vgl. Newton: McPherson's Ridge, a.a.O., S. 22).

 

John Alexander Kress of Pennsylvania; Appointed from New York, Cadet, West Point, 1 July 1858 to 18 October 1861; Major, 94th New York Infantry, 10 July 1862, Lieutenant Colonel, 1 November 1862; Resigned 11 December 1863; Second Lieutenant of Ord­nance, 24 November 1863, First Lieutenant, 16 July 1864, Captain, 23 June 1874, Major, 3 January 1887, Lieutenant Colonel, Chief Ordnance Officer of US. Volunteers, 12 May 1899, Lieutenant Colonel, Ordnance, 5 March 1900, Breveted Captain, 2 April 1865 for gallant and meritorious service during the Siege of Richmond and Petersburg, Virginia, and Major, 3 April 1865 for meritorious and distinguished service as Chief of Ordnance of the 25 Army Corps, Breveted Major 27 February 1890 for gallant service in action against Indians on the Columbia River, Oregon, 8 July 1878. Lieutenant Colonel March 5, 1900; Colonel, August 17, 1903; and Bri­gadier General, August 16, 1903. General Kress was placed on the retired list August 17, 1903, with over 40 years of service. For a number of years he was in charge of Jefferson Barracks. Kress continued to make his home in St. Louis after retirement. During his early retirement Kress served as Grand Marshall of the World's Fair in 1904. His son remembered his father rode a white horse at the head of the parade (vgl. http://www.arlingtoncemetery.net/jakress.htm).

 

John Alexander Kress was born November 04, 1839 on a farm in north-central Pennsylvania. In 1847 he accompanied his parents westward to Indiana Territory. General Kress died July 3, 1933, at Walter Reed Army Hospital in Washington, DC, and was buried at Arlington National Cemetery (vgl. http://www.arlingtoncemetery.net/jakress.htm).

 

Photo:

BrigGen John A. Kress (www.findagrave.com)

 

Documents/Literature::

- **Kress, John A.: "At Gettysburg," Missouri Republican, St. Louis, December 4, 1886

 

 

Kühner, Karl Friedrich (Keener, Charles F.):

US-Pvt, Co. L, 6th Regiment Ohio Light Cavalry (vgl. National Park Soldiers M552 Roll 27). Kühner enlisted am 16.10.1861 (vgl. Kamphoefner, Walter and Helbich, Wolfgang (eds.): Germans in the Civil War: The Letters They Wrote Home, a.a.O., S. 293 n. 5).

 

Kühner stammte aus Baden und war 1851 zusammen mit seinem 16 Jahre alten Bruder Ludwig Wilhelm *Kühner aus Unters­chefflenz/Baden in die USA nach Albany/NY eingewandert. Mitte der 1850er Jahre zogen die Brüder Kühner nach Ohio, wobei Lud­wig Kühner sich in Thompson/Ohio niederließ, während sein Bruder Karl Friedrich Kühner nach Trumbull/Ohio zog (vgl. Kampho­efner, Walter and Helbich, Wolfgang (eds.): Germans in the Civil War: The Letters They Wrote Home, a.a.O., S. 292).

 

 

Kühner, Ludwig Wilhelm (Keener, Louis W.):

US-Corporal, 15th Independent Battery, Ohio Light Artillery (vgl. National Park Soldiers M552 Roll 57). He enlisted on 3.11.1861 (vgl. Kamphoefner, Walter and Helbich, Wolfgang (eds.): Germans in the Civil War: The Letters They Wrote Home, a.a.O., S. 293 n. 5); er musterte nach Ablauf des 3-years-service 10.11.1864 aus (vgl. Kamphoefner, Walter and Helbich, Wolfgang (eds.): Germans in the Civil War: The Letters They Wrote Home, a.a.O., S. 294 n. 7)

 

US-Corporal aus Ohio (vgl. Engle, Stephen D.: „Yankee Dutchmen“. Germans, the Union, and the Construction of a Wartime Identi­ty; in: Ural, Susan­nah J. (ed.): Civil War Citizens: Race, Ethnicity, and Identity in America's Bloodiest Contest, a.a.O, S. 17); Kühner stammte aus Baden und war 1851 im Alter von 16 Jahren zusammen mit seinem 23 Jahre alten Bruder Karl Friedrich *Kühner aus Unterschefflenz/Baden in die USA nach Albany/NY eingewandert. Mitte der 1850er Jahre zogen die Brüder Kühner nach Ohio, wo­bei Ludwig Kühner sich in Thompson/Ohio niederließ, während sein Bruder Karl Friedrich Kühner nach Trumbull/Ohio zog (vgl. Kamphoefner, Walter and Helbich, Wolfgang (eds.): Germans in the Civil War: The Letters They Wrote Home, a.a.O., S. 292).

 

Ludwig Kühner änderte seinen Namen in Louis Keener (vgl. Kamphoefner, Walter and Helbich, Wolfgang (eds.): Germans in the Civil War: The Letters They Wrote Home, a.a.O., S. 293) bzw. Lewis W. Keener (vgl. National Park Soldiers M552 Roll 57).

 

 

Kuhn, John H.:

US-Major, zunächst Captain 9th Illinois Infantry (vgl. Morrison: The Ninth Regiment, a.a.O., S. 13).Ab 9.9.1861 als Provost Mar­shall eingesetzt in Paducah / Kentucky (vgl. Morrison, a.a.O., S. 16). Major 9th Illinois Infantry am 2.12.1861 (vgl. Morrison, a.a.O., S. 16).

 

 

Kurtz, George W.:

CS-Captain; Co. K, 5th Virginia Infantry Regiment; Kurtz trat als Sergeant in das Regiment (vgl. National Park Soldiers M382 Roll 32); he served as an aide to General Thomas J. (Stonewall) Jackson during the early part of the war.

 

6.3.1838 - † 14.11.1926; beerd. Mount Hebron Cemetery, Winchester City/VA; °° Mary Frances Clayton Kurtz (1850-1936) (vgl. www.findagrave.com, Abruf vom 21.8.2016).

 

Urkunden/Documents/Literature::

- Kurtz, George W.: Papers. Southern Historical Collection. Wilson Library, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill/NC

 

Photo:

- George W. Kurtz ca, 1861 (VMI Archives Photographs Collection)

 

 

Kurtz, L. B.:

US-Captain; Co G 17th Pennsylvania Cavalry (vgl. Martin: Gettysburg, a.a.O., S. 39)

 

 

 

 

 

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Kane, ++++:

im Juni 1861 Marshall in Baltimore; seine prosüdliche Sympathien veranlaßten ihn bald nach einem Besuch des 2nd Wisconsin Re­giment, sich der Konföderation als Offizier anzuschließen (vgl. Gaff: If this is War, a.a.O., S. 132)

 

 

Kane, Thomas Leiper:

US-BrigGen; als LtCol führte er am 6.6.1862 das 13th Pennsylvania Reserves 'Bucktail Rifles', in einem Gefecht nördlich Port Repu­blik (während Jackson's Valley Campaign), bei dem CS-BrigGen Turner *Ashby gefallen ist (vgl. Krick: Conquering the Valley, a.a.O., S. 29; vgl. Swank: Courier, a.a.O., S. 23). Kane's Battalion wurde von der 1st Maryland Infantry (CS) unter Bradley Tyler *Johnson geschlagen, 287 US-Soldaten, darunter Kane wurden gefangengenommen (vgl. Swank: Courier, a.a.O., S. 23). Kane wurde ausgetauscht gegen LtCol Williams Carter *Wickham (vgl. Boatner, a.a.O., S. 918 Wickham).

 

Photo:

- Milhollen / Kaplan: Divided We Fought, a.a.O., S. 65 (als LtCol)

 

 

Kappesser, Peter:

US-Corp; 8.1.1839 Heiligenmoschel - 31.3.1930 Syracuse/New York, beerdigt auf dem Woodlawn Cemetery. Corporal 149th New York Infantry; er erhielt die Medal of Honor für seine Leistungen im Battle of Lookout Mountain am 24.11.1863 (vgl. Kukatzki; in Pfälzisch-Rheinische Familienkunde 2008, S. 448).

 

 

Karge, Joseph:

US-LtCol; 1st New Jersey Cavalry. Am 29.7.1862 ordnete LtCol Joseph Karge, 1st New Jersey Cavalry, von Elm House, Va. aus eine Aufklärung mit 150 Mann unter Führung von Major Myron H. Beaumont in Richtung Orange Court House an den Rapidan River bei Madison Mills, mit dem Befehl, den Fluß nicht zu überqueren Beaumont vertrieb die an der Furt stehenden CS-Posten (vgl. Karge's Report OR 12 [2] S. 110; Beaumont's Report OR 12 [2] S. 111). Am 7.8.1862 stieß Owen Jones auf Befehl von BrigGen Bayard mit seinem Regiment Richtung Madison Court House vor, um seine Postenlinie, die westlich des Roberton River stand und von CS-Trup­pen angegriffen wurde, zu verstärken (vgl. Karte bei Krick: Cedar Mountain, a.a.O., S. 18). Gleichzeitig stieß BrigGen Bayard mit der 1st New Jersey Cavalry unter Führung von LtCol Joseph *Karge und Major Myron *Beaumont in zwei Angriffskeilen auf Bar­nett's Ford am Rapidan vor. Hierbei stieß die US-Cavalry auf starke CS-Kräfte der Division Ewell, deren Vorhut aus Robertson's Ca­valry bestand (vgl. BrigGen Bayard's Report OR 12 [2] S. 92-93). BrigGen Bayard ordnete den Rückzug an, wobei die US-Cavalry das verzögerte Gefecht führte. Auch Jones' Truppen wurden über den Robertson River zurückgenommen. Auf Befehl Bayard's ließ Jones die Brücke über den Robertson River zerstören (vgl. Bayard's Report OR 12 [2] S. 92).

 

Karge led the 1st New Jersey Cavalry in the Virginia Campaigns and then trained and led the 2nd New Jersey Cavalry in Tennessee.

 

Documents/Literature::

- Kajencki, Francis C.: Star of Many A Battlefield: Brevet Brigadier General Joseph Karge in the American Civil War (Fairleigh Dickinson, 1980)

 

 

Karsner, William F.:

CS-Captain; Co G 4th Alabama Infantry

 

 

Kasey, John G.:

CS-LtCol. während Jackson's Vorstoß gegen Pope's Army of Virginia Anfang August 1862 und im Battle von Cedar Mountain am 9.8.1862 war Kasey Regimentskommandeur der 58th Virginia Infantry.

 

 

Katcham, Edward:

US-Lt; 120th New York Infantry

 

- Duganne, A. J. H.: The Fighting Quakers: A True Story of the War of our Union (Schroeder Publications, 120 pp, Photos, Reprint of 1866 Original). The story of two brothers and as cousin who were killed in the war - Lt Edward Katcham (120th NY Vols) and Lt John Ketcham and Capt Nehemiah Mann (4th NY Cavalry)

 

 

Kauffman, Henry:

US-Pvt; Co. I, 110th Regiment Ohio Infantry (vgl. National Park Soldiers M552 Roll 57).

 

Documents/Literature::

- The Civil War Letters (1862-1865) of Private Henry Kauffman: the Harmony boys are all well. Henry Kauffman, 110th O.V.I..Edi­tor David McCordick. E. Mellen Press. Lewiston, O. 1991

 

 

Kauffman, Henry:

US-Pvt; Co. C, 28th Regiment Pennsylvania Infantry (vgl. National Park Soldiers M554 Roll 62); auch Henry Kaufman

 

 

Kauffman, Henry:

US-Sergeant; Co. D, 166th Regiment Pennsylvania Infantry (Drafted Militia) (vgl. National Park Soldiers M554 Roll 62).

 

 

Kauffman, Henry:

US-Pvt; Co. E, 171st Regiment Pennsylvania Infantry (Drafted Militia) (vgl. National Park Soldiers M554 Roll 62).

 

 

Kauffman, Joseph Franklin:

CS-Private, auch Joseph Kaufmann (vgl. Tanner: Stonewall in the Valley, a.a.O., S. 575); 10th Virginia Infantry (William B. *Talia­ferro's Brigade); das Regiment wurde Ende April 1862 von Manassas zu Jackson's Army of the Valley verlegt und nahm an der Of­fensive gegen Frémont und Banks ab 30.4.1862 teil (vgl. Tanner: Stonewall in the Valley, a.a.O., S. 163, 179). Teilnahme am Vorstoß Jackson's gegen Pope's Army of Virginia im August 1862 und am Battle of Cedar Mountain am 9.8.1862 (vgl. Krick: Cedar Moun­tain, a.a.O., S. 33-34, 40-41, 323, 341: Tanner: Stonewall in the Valley, a.a.O., S. 575)

 

Documents/Literature::

- Kauffman, Joseph Franklin: Diary, University of North Carolina. Southern Historical Collection (SHC), Chapel Hill, North Caroli­na (vgl. Krick: Cedar Mountain, a.a.O., S. 33-34, 40-41, 323, 341)

 

 

Kavanagh, William F.:

CS-Pvt; Co. G, 3rd Regiment Alabama Infantry (vgl. National Park Soldiers M374 Roll 24).

 

 

Kean, Robert Garlick Hill:

Captain Kean was head of the Bureau of War for the Confederacy; aus Lynchburg, VA

 

Documents/Literature::

- Kean, Robert Garlick Hill (ed. by Edward Younger): Inside the Confederate Government (Oxford Univ., NY 1957); Nevins says "This well-edited diary of one close to the seat of war; observations are sharp, keen, perceptive; especially revealing of the character and inner workings of government")

- Kean Collection: Property of Dr. Robert H. Kean of Richmond, VA. Darin: A few letters from CS-Secretary of State, Randolph and Mrs. Randolph to Randolph's nephew by marriage, Captain R. G. H. Kean of Lynchburg, VA, mostly in the post-war period; a ma­nuscript sketch of about 3.000 words concerning Randolph's career as brigadier general and stopping just after he became Secretary of War, which was presumably written by R. G. H. Kean; a few notes on Randolph's early life, presumably by Mrs. Randolph; and a draft amnesty petition for Randolph, probably by Kean (vgl. Jones: Confederate Strategy from Shiloh to Vicksburg, a.a.O., S. 241-42)

 

 

Kearns, Watkins:

CS-Sgt; 27th Virginia Infantry; Stonewall's Army of the Valley (vgl. Tanner: Stonewall in the Valley, a.a.O., S. 119, 575).

 

Documents/Literature::

- **Kearns, Watkins: Diary. Typescript of unpublished diary of Watkins Kearns of the 27th Virginia Infantry; written in 1862 (Virginia Historical Society, Richmond, Virginia)

 

 

Kearny, Philipp:

US-MajGen; 1814-62; aus New York; Graduate des Columbia College; Eintritt in die US Army 1837; Berufsoffizier; als Militärbeob­achter bei der französischen Armee in Algerien 1840 (vgl. Nevins: Col Wainwright, a.a.O., S. 31). 1845 war Philipp Kearny Lt in Co. F der 1st US-Dragoons und nahm an der Durchquerung Amerikas über den Oregon Trail zum Schutz von 'Emigrant Parties' aus dem Osten der USA nach Oregon unter Führung von Col Stephen W. Kearny teil. Weitere teilnehmende Offiziere waren Captain Phi­lip St. George *Cooke (Co. F), Lt. John Love (Co. C), Lt William B. Franklin von den Topographical Engineers und Lt Richard S. *Ewell (vgl. Pfanz: Ewell, a.a.O., S. 44). Teilnahme am Mexikokrieg. Einarmiger Kriegsheld des Mexiko-Krieges (vgl. Gibbon: Per­sonal Recollections, a.a.O., S. 20). Kearny trat anschließend aus der US Army aus und wurde Offizier der französischen Armee. Er wurde für seinen Einsatz in der Schlacht von Solferino mit der Mitgliedschaft der 'Ehrenlegion' (Légion d'Honneur) be­lohnt (vgl. Ne­vins: Col Wainwright, a.a.O., S. 35 n). Kearny war einer der am besten trainierten Offiziere auf US-Seite (vgl. Nevins: Col Wainw­right, a.a.O., S. 35). Im Frühjahr 1862 BrigGen und Brigadekommandeur in Franklin's Division Army of the Potomac während der Peninsular Campaign. Er zeichnete sich erneut aus und wurde zum MajGen ernannt (vgl. Nevins: Col Wainwright, a.a.O., S. 42). Ge­fallen im Battle of 2nd Bull Run am 30.8.1862.

 

Captain James H. Haynes, 55th Virginia regiment, says he was on the skirmish line at Chantilly, in the edge of a brushy place with a clearing in front. It was raining heavily and growing dark when Kearny rode suddenly upon the line, and asked what troops they were. Seeing his mistake, he turned and started across the open ground to escape, but was fired on and killed. His body was brought into the lines and was recognized by General A. P. Hill, who said, sorrowfully, "Poor Kearny! He deserved a better death than this." The next day General Lee ordered that the body be carried to the Federal lines, and in a note to General Pope he said: " The body of General Philip Kearny was brought from the field last night, and he was reported dead. I send it forward under a flag of truce, thin­king the possession of his remains may be a consolation to his family." A C. R. According to General A. P. Hill, Kearny fell in front of Thomas's brigade, but he also states that Brockenbrough's brigade held the skirmish line, and to this Captain Haynes's and Lieuten­ant Healy's regiment, the 55th Virginia, belonged." (Anm. der Editors von Battles and Leaders, Vol II, S. 537/38).

 

Documents/Literature::

- **Baquet, Camille (Lt. Co. A, 1st NJ): History of the First Brigade, New Jersey Volunteers (MacCrellish & Quigley, State Printers, Trenton, 1910) (PDF-Datei, Archiv Ref, ameridownload 'New Jersey Brigade (Kearny) (Baquet)'

- **De Peyster, John Watts: Personal and Military History of Phil Kearney (New York 1869; First Edition)

- **Werstein, Irving: Kearny the Magnificant: The Story of General Philip Kearny, 1815-1862 (John Day, New York 1962)

 

 

Keen, Newton Asbury:

CS-Pvt; 6th Texas Cavalry, Ross Texas Brigade; Teilnahme an der Aktion von Keetsville / Missouri am 25.2.1862 (vgl. Hale: Third Texas, a.a.O., S. 89 mit Anm. 13 S. 300; Keen, Such is War, a.a.O., S. 248; Shea / Hess: Pea Ridge, a.a.O., S. 97). Teilnahme am Battle of Pea Ridge am 7.3.1862 (vgl. Shea / Hess: Pea Ridge, a.a.O., S. 96). Keen was born in Indiana and moved to Texas at an ear­ly age. He joined the 6th Texas Cavalry and saw heavy fighting at Elkhorn Tavern and Corinth. He was captured and imprisoned at Camp Douglas in Chicago and provides a vivid portrait of the prison and its horrors

 

Documents/Literature::

- Keen, Newton A.: "'Such is War': The Confederate Memoirs of Newton Asbury Keen." Edited by William C. Billingsley. Texas Mi­litary History 6, no. 4 (Winter 1967), S. 239-253; Texas Military History 7, nos. 1-3 (Spring-Fall 1968), S. 44-70, 103-119, 176-194

- Keen, Newton Asbury : Living and Fighting with the Texas 6th Cavalry (reprint Olde Soldier Books und reprint Butternut Press, Inv., Baithersburg 1986, Md.)

 

 

Keene, H. S.:

US-Lt; 6th Wisconsin Battery; am 3.3.1863 wurde die Battery im Zuge der Verlegung des XVII Army Corps Division Isaac M. Quin­by per Schiffstransport den Tallahatchie River flußaufwärts transportiert im Rahmen des US-Angriffs auf Fort Pemberton (vgl. Bear­ss: Vicksburg, a.a.O., S. xviii).

 

 

Keener:

s. Kühner

 

 

Keesey, William A.:

US-Pvt, Co. I, 55th Regiment Ohio Infantry (vgl. National Park Soldiers M552 Roll 57) und Reverend Co. I des Regiments (vgl. Os­born: Trials and Triumphs. The Record of the Fifty-Fifth Ohio Volunteer Infantry, a.a.O., S. 36).

 

Photo:

Pvt und Rev. William A. Keesey (vgl. Osborn: Trials and Triumphs. The Record of the Fifty-Fifth Ohio Volunteer Infantry, a.a.O., S. 36)

 

 

Keifer, Joseph Warren:

US-Col; (1836-1932), commanding the 2nd Brigade, 3rd Division, 6th Corps, to Colonel Charles Kingsbury (b. 1836), assistant adjutant general, Middle Military District

 

Urkunden/Documents/Literature::

Library of Virginia, Richmond/VA Letter, Archives: Keifer, Joseph Warren: Letter, 9 October 1864, from Union Colonel Joseph Warren Keifer (1836-1932), commanding the 2nd Brigade, 3rd Division, 6th Corps, to Colonel Charles Kingsbury (b. 1836), assistant adjutant general, Middle Military District, complaining that the brigade band and men of 9th New York Heavy Artillery have been nurses in the hospital in Winchester, Virginia, and have been detained improperly by the hospital surgeon despite Keifer’s order for them to return. Keifer requests an order for their return. Letter is endorsed by Kingsbury, General James B. Ricketts (1817-1887) commanding the 3rd Division, and General Horatio G. Wright (1820-1899) commanding the 6th Corps and the troops are ordered to be returned.

 

 

Keigwin, James:

US-Col; Regimentskommandeur 49th Indiana Infantry, 9th Division Osterhaus, XIII. Army Corps McClernand während Grant's Campaign gegen Vicksburg 1863 (vgl. Bearss: Vicksburg, vol. II, S. 402). Keigwin führte die US-Aufklärung in McClernand's Army Corps am 25./26.4.1863 in Louisiana südlich New Carthage Richtung Hard Times Landing bei Grant's Vorstoß auf dem Westufer des Mississippi zur Übersetzstelle der Armee südlich Vicksburg (vgl. Winschel, Triumph & Defeat, a.a.O., S. 26; Karte bei Winschel, a.a.O., S. 23). Battle of Port Gibson am 1.5.1863 (vgl. Bearss: Vicksburg, vol. II, S. 402).

 

 

Keiholtz, David:

s. David *Keilhotz

 

 

Keiholtz, George:

US-Pvt; Co. E, 208th Regiment Pennsylvania Infantry (vgl. National Park Soldiers M554 Roll 62); original filed under 'Keilholtz'

 

 

Keil, Frederic W.:

US-1stLt; Co. C, 35th Regiment Ohio Infantry (vgl. National Park Soldiers M552 Roll 57).

 

 

Literatur:

- **Keil, F. W.: Thirty-Fifth Ohio: A Narrative of Service from August, 1861, to 1864 (Fort Wayne, 1894)

 

 

Keilholtz, David:

US-Pvt; Co. F, 165th Regiment Pennsylvania Infantry (Drafted Militia) (vgl. National Park Soldiers M554 Roll 62); auch 'Keilholtz' Keiholz, David: Papers, 1862-1863, Library of Virginia, Richmond/VA, Archives, Accession 38833

 

Keiholtz of Adams County, Pennsylvania, and the 165th Pennsylvania Regiment, consisting of notice, 27 August 1862, informing Keiholtz that he has been enrolled as a citizen of Adams County eligible to be drafted for military service; draft notice, 18 October 1862, informing Keiholtz he has been drafted into military service; letter, 8 January 1863, from Daniel P. Keiholtz to David Keiholtz discussing his brother’s being drafted, commenting on the war and slavery, detailing the makeup of his corps, asking about David’s service with the army near Suffolk, Virginia, stating he has seen a balloon, and commenting on fighting; letter, 21 April 1863, from Daniel Keiholtz to David Keiholtz commenting on the action around Suffolk, the land and people around Fredericksburg, Virginia, and general news, and commenting that there will be heavy fighting in the summer; discharge notice, 28 July 1863, for David Keiholtz of the 165th Pennsylvania drafted militia for reason of expiration of term of service (vgl. Keiholz, David: Papers, 1862-1863, Library of Virginia, Richmond/VA, Archives, Accession 38833)

 

 

Urkunden/Documents/Literature::

- Keilholz, David: Papers, 1862-1863, Library of Virginia, Richmond/VA, Archives,Accession 38833

 

 

Keilholtz, George:

s. Keiholtz, George

 

 

Keith, James H.:

CS-Captain; Co K 4th Alabama Infantry; gefallen im Battle von Fredericksburg

 

 

Keith, Thomas:

CS-Pvt, Co B, 28th Regiment Louisiana Infantry (Gray's) (vgl. National Park Soldiers M378 Roll 15); 21.8.1821 - † 30.8.1863, be­erd. Caney Creek Cemetery, Rocky Mount, Bossier Parish /LA; Bruder von CS-Pvt Wiley C. *Keith °° mit Jane Oliver Keith (1829-1904); aus der Ehe stammen 4 Kinder (vgl. www.findagrave). Thomas Keith starb während seiner Dienstzeit beim 28th Regiment Louisiana Infantry (Gray's) an Typhus; seine Witwe erhielt eine Pension (vgl. Louisiana Confederate Pension Application Reel CP1.76).

 

 

Keith, Wiley C.:

CS-Pvt, Co. I, 9th Regiment Alabama Cavalry (Malone's) (vgl. National Park Soldiers M374 Roll 24); 8.8.1820 - † 27.3.1894, beerd. Rocky Mount Cemetery, Rocky Mount, Bossier Parish /LA; Bruder von CS-Pvt Thomas *Keith; °° Martha Ann Edith Urquhart Keith (1837-1890); aus der Ehe stammen 3 Kinder (vgl. www.findagrave).

 

 

Keitt, Lawrence M.:

CS-Politiker; aus South Carolina (vgl. Davis: A Government of Our Own, a.a.O., S. 12, 47); früher Kritiker Jefferson Davis' (vgl. Chestnut: Diary, a.a.O., S. 68, 86). Keitt war Delegierter von South Carolina auf der Provisional Convention der pro-sezessionistischen Staaten, die im Februar 1861 in *Montgomery / Alabama stattfand (vgl. Davis: A Government of Our Own, a.a.O., S. 12, 47). Im Verlauf des Krieges war Keitt Offizier (vgl. Castel: Decision in the West, a.a.O., S. 21-22, 574 n 20) im Rang eines Col (vgl. Ruffin: Diary, a.a.O., vol. 2, S. 59); Col 20th Regiment South Carolina Infantry (vgl. National Park Soldiers M381 Roll 18).

 

Documents/Literature::

- **Keitt, Lawrence: Papers (Duke University, Durham, North Carolina)

 

 

Keller, William H.:

CS-Adjutant; 47th Alabama Infantry; Schwager des Regimentskommandeurs Col James Washington *Jackson (vgl. Penny / Laine: Struggle for the Round Tops, a.a.O., S. 42). 1863 während der Gettysburg Campaign gehörte die 48th Alabama Infantry zu Longstreet’s I. Corps, 1st Division Hood, 4th Brigade BrigGen Evander McIver Law. Die Regimentsstärke betrug im Sommer 1863 vor der Schlacht von Gettysburg 418 Mann (vgl. Penny / Laine: Struggle for the Round Tops, a.a.O., S. 23). Das Regiment nahm am 2.7.1863 teil beim Angriff der Division Hood auf Plum Run Valley und Devil's Den (vgl. Penny / Laine, a.a.O., S. 39).

 

Photo:

- Penny / Laine: Struggle for the Round Tops, a.a.O., S. 42

 

 

Kelley, A. K.:

CS-Private, 21st Virginia Infantry (Tanner: Stonewall in the Valley, a.a.O., S. 504)

 

Documents/Literature::

- Kelley, A. K.: Kelly letters. Unpublished wartime letters of A. K. Kelley, Member of the 21st Virginia Infantry. Kelly-Williamson Papers. Duke University Manuscript Collection, Durham, North Carolina

 

 

Kelley, Benjamin Franklin:

US-++++Gen; 1807-91, New Hampshire, Vorkriegszeit Kaufmann und Railroad Agent; ab 22.5.1861 Col. 1st (West) Virginia Infan­try (vgl. McClellan: Own Story, a.a.O., S. 50); Col. Kelley griff unter McClellan am 26.5.1861 Grafton / West Virginia am Knoten­punkt der Baltimore-Ohio-RR an und setzte am 3.6.1861 den Angriff auf Philippi fort (sog. Philippi-Races), dabei schwer verwundet; ab August 1861 BrigGen, Brigadekommandeur Kelley's Brigade, Army of the Occupation in West Virginia (Mai - Aug. 1861) u. Rail­road District / W. Va. (11.10.61- 11.3.1862); Kelley befehligte dabei den Angriff in West Virginia im Oktober 1861; am 26.10.1861 griffen Kelley's Truppen Romney / WV an und erzwangen den Rückzug der Rebs auf Winchester (Anm.: Zeitangabe stimmt nicht: der Angriff am 26.10.1861 wurde abgeschlagen, der Angriff vom 24.11.1861 war dagegen erfolgreich; vgl. McDonald: Laurel Briga­de, a.a.O., S. 27). Hilfegesuche der Verteidiger an Gen Johnston, den Befehlshaber in Nord-Virginia, blieben erfolglos, mit Ausnahme der Detachierung eines Rekruten-Regiments, da Johnston alle verfügbaren Truppen bei Manassas benötigte (vgl. Chase: Diary, a.a.O., S. 52); Eroberung von Romney und Blue's Gap. Anschließend kommandierte Kelley den Railroad District, Mountain Depart­ment (11.3.62-26.6.62); Railroad District, Mid. Department (22.7.-20.9.62) und Defenses Upper Potomac, VIII, Mid. Dept. (5.1. - Feb. 63); später im Government Service.

 

 

Kelley, David C.:

CS-Major; Forrest's Cavalry (vgl. Wills: Forrest, a.a.O., S. 49; Button: Early Engagements with Forrest, in: Confederate Veteran V [1897], S. 479)

 

 

Kelley, Henry:

CS-+++; 1st Virginia Infantry

 

Photo:

- Davis / Wiley: Photographic History of the Civil War, vol I, a.a.O., S. 141

 

 

Kelley, Thomas Benton:

US Pvt; 8th Illinois Cavalry (Co E); Kelley war am 1.7.1863 zusammen mit Pvt James O. Hall auf vorgeschobenem Vorposten der 8th Illinois Cavalry westlich von Gettysburg an der Straße nach Cashtown; sie waren die ersten US-Soldaten die auf CS-Truppen tra­fen (vgl. Martin: Gettysburg, a.a.O., S. 63; Pfanz: Gettysburg: The First Day, a.a.O., S. +++; vgl. Newton: McPherson's Ridge, a.a.O., S, 22).

 

Lt Jones kommandierte am 1.7.1863 den vorgeschobenem Vorposten der 8th Illinois Cavalry westlich von Get­tysburg an der Straße nach Cashtown; seine Männer, darunter Pvt Thomas Kelley und Pvt George Sager, waren die ersten US-Soldaten die auf CS-Truppen trafen (vgl. Martin: Gettys­burg, a.a.O., S. 63). Jones feuerte einen der ersten Schüsse im Battle of Gettysburg ab (vgl. Martin, a.a.O., S. 63 mit S. 606n27; Longacre: The Cavalry at Gettysburg, a.a.O., S. 186; vgl. Newton: McPherson's Ridge, a.a.O., S. 21-22).

 

10.10.1838 Castleton, Rutland County/Vermont - † 18.1.1915; beerd. Evergreen Cemetery, Rutland/Vermont; °° Mary Amelia Kelley Kelley (!) (1838-1904) (vgl. www.findagrave.com).

 

Photo:

- http://www.readex.com/blog/“long-wicked-war“-regimental-histories-american-civil-war-collection-1860-1922

- Thomas Benton Kelley (vgl. www.findagrave.com)

 

 

Kellog/Kellogg:

die Sortierung erfolgt nach Vornamen, unabhängig von der jeweiligen Schreibweise des Familiennamens

 

 

Kellogg, Edward P.:

US-2ndLt; Co. C, 2nd Regiment Wiscon­sin Infantry (vgl. National Park Soldiers M559 Roll 16).

 

Documents/Literature:

- Kellogg, Edward: „Letters from a Soldier,“ Milwaukee Sunday Telegraph, September 228, 1879

 

 

Kellog, Elisha F.:

US-Major; 1st Connecticut Artillery; bei der Belagerung von Yorktown während der Peninsular Campaign 1862 bei *Farinholt House eingesetzt (vgl. Photo bei Thomas: Cannons, a.a.O., S. 53). Kellog befehligte hierbei Battery Nr. 1 bei *Farinholt House, bestehend aus fünf weitreichenden 100-pounder Parrots (Reichweite 6800 yards; Photo bei Thomas: Cannons, a.a.O., S. 53) und einer 200-pounder Parrot (vgl. Newton: Johnston and the Defense of Richmond, a.a.O., S. 130).

 

 

Kellogg, Henry M.:

US-Pvt; Co. G, 55th Regiment Ohio Infantry (vgl. National Park Soldiers M552 Roll 57).

 

Photo:

Pvt Henry M. Kellogg (vgl. Osborn: Trials and Triumphs. The Record of the Fifty-Fifth Ohio Volunteer Infantry, a.a.O., S. 64)

 

 

Kellog, John A.:

US-BrigGen; in der Vorkriegszeit war Kellog „Prosecuting Attorney“ im Juneau County / Wisconsin; im April 1861 stellte Kellog zusammen mit Rufus A. Dawes eine Freiwilligen Company auf unter dem Namen „The Lemonweir Minute Men“ (vgl. Dawes: Ser­vice with the Sixth Wisconsin, a.a.O., S. 6). Zunächst First Lieutenant Co. K, 6th Wisconsin Infantry; promoted Captain Co. I, 6th Wisconsin Infantry / Iron Brigade (vgl. http://ironbrigader.com/2011/03/06/capture-escape-captain-john-a-kellogg-iron-brigades-6th-wisconsin-infantry/). LtCol 4.12.1864; Col 18.12.1864; Bvt. BrigGen USA 9.4.1864 (vgl. Boatner: Civil War Dictionary, a.a.O., S. 450).

 

1863 im Stab von Cutler's Brigade; am 1.7.1863 im Battle of Gettysburg bei Seminary Ridge eingesetzt als AAD (vgl. Martin: Get­tysburg, a.a.O., S. 110, 135). Kellog beobachtete den Angriff am Bloody Railroad Cut am 1.7.1863 vom Waldrand bei Se­minary Ridge; vgl. Martin: Gettysburg, a.a.O., S. 135).

 

16.3.1828 - † 10.2.1883; born in Bethany, Pennsylvania, Kellogg settled in Sauk County, Wisconsin, where he studied law and was admitted to the bar. During the American Civil War, Kellogg served in the 6th Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry Regiment. After the war, Kellogg was a pension agent in La Crosse, Wisconsin and then moved to Wausau, Wisconsin, where he served in the Wisconsin State Senate (vgl. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Azor_Kellogg).

 

Prisoner of War:

aus http://ironbrigader.com/2011/03/06/capture-escape-captain-john-a-kellogg-iron-brigades-6th-wisconsin-infantry/):

 

On May 5th, while on skirmish duty at the opening of the Battle of the Wilderness, Kellogg was knocked unconscious, probably from an artillery shell explosion. Disoriented when he regained consciousness, he wandered through the densely wooded battlefield and was captured by members of the 13th Georgia Infantry. Kellogg and other prisoners captured at the Wilderness were marched to Gord­onsville, Virginia, where they boarded freight cars and went by rail to Lynchburg, Virginia. At the prison in Lynchburg, Kellogg and about 200 other officers were housed in a 20 by 50 foot room. “The floors of the building were filthy, and the ceilings swarmed with vermin,” Kellogg recalled, adding “the building was only a fit habitation for the rats that infested it”. Other than the prison buil­ding itself, Kellogg regarded the treatment at Lynchburg as being relatively decent with a camp commander who was “humane” and with food that was of good quality but limited in quantity. The prisoners had begun construction of a tunnel to escape, but before it could be completed, they were taken to Danville, Virginia.

 

Kellogg described the two story brick building at the Danville prison as being “filthy beyond description”. Food consisted of pea soup and cornbread, of such poor quality that “the very recollection is nauseating”. The stay in Danville was brief, and once again the prisoners were loaded in freight cars and shipped out, this time to Macon, Georgia. Conditions were worse here than in the first two places. Kellogg was shocked at the appearance of the prisoners in the camp. “Who were these gaunt skeletons, clothed in rags, cover­ed with dirt … wild, eager eyes were peering into our faces — eyes from which had departed all expression except that of hopeless misery.” The approximately five acre camp held 1500 prisoners, many of whom were without shelter. Prisoners were issued a pint of corn meal and a teaspoon of salt per day, with a slice of bacon or some peas every second or third day. With prisoner exchanges sus­pended by the Federal government, the incarcerated faced two choices: they could stay in the camp and face death by starvation and exposure, or they could try to escape. Kellogg discovered that construction of a tunnel had already begun, and joined in the excavati­on.

 

The tunnel had been dug about 90 feet, with about 30 feet left to go, when one of the Union prisoners told the Confederate guards about the tunnel. The betrayer was removed before the prisoners could exact revenge. The situation was becoming desperate, with starvation a very real possibility. At one point, Kellogg caught a rat and made a soup with some wormy peas, a beef bone, and onion peelings.  Another tunnel was started, but before it got very far, the Macon prisoners were sent by rail to Charleston, South Carolina.

 

A few miles outside of Charleston, Kellogg and five others jumped off the train under cover of darkness, in the hope of reaching Uni­on lines at Port Royal, South Carolina. Without map or compass, the six made their way through alligator infested swamps only to be recaptured by a slave catcher with bloodhounds. They were taken to Charleston and imprisoned there. After spending some weeks confined in the Charleston prison, the prisoners were offered a deal. They would be provided better quarters within the city in ex­change for a pledge not to escape. Realizing that escape from their current location was unlikely, almost all, including Kellogg, ac­cepted the offer. They were quartered comfortably in a hospital building and grounds, and were well fed. The one downside to this lo­cation was that Union forces had been shelling Charleston for some time, and the occasional mortar or artillery round would land nearby.

 

Kellogg might have stayed in Charleston for the rest of the war, but a Yellow Fever outbreak had the Confederate authorities empty­ing out the prisons to help prevent the disease from spreading. About the first of October, the prisoners were ordered to Columbia, South Carolina. Kellogg and four companions agreed to make an escape attempt while en route to Columbia. This time, they had a map and a compass to aid them. They departed on October 5th for Columbia. The plan was to jump from the train at night and head for Union lines between Chattanooga, Tennessee and Atlanta. With four armed guards stationed near the doors of the freight cars, es­cape might prove fatal unless the guards were disarmed. A plan was devised for that. The guards relaxed as the trip continued into the night, and after getting tired of standing, sat down in the doorway with their feet hanging down, and with their muskets beside them. Kellogg’s group removed the percussion caps from the muskets, disarming them. Kellogg gave a signal, and the men jumped from the rapidly moving train. The group traveled mostly at night, resting well off the roads during the day. Two became separated early in the trek, and unable to find them, Kellogg and the other two continued on without them. They traveled for several days, at one point eluding pursuit by bloodhounds, until they arrived at the Savannah River. They would need help getting across the river, since one man couldn’t swim. Kellogg decided to take a chance and approached a slave cabin on a nearby plantation. Would they help or turn them in? They were more than willing to help. They fed the men and gave them five days worth of food to take along, secured a boat and ferried them across the river, and gave them information on the movements and positions of Union forces. “They were faithful to every trust imposed upon them by us, even to the imperiling of their lives. They were not only willing to divide their final crust with us, but to give us the last morsel of food in their possession” wrote a grateful John Kellogg. They continued on into Georgia, finally encountering some Georgia Unionists who gave them shelter and escorted them to General William T. Sherman’s lines near Calhoun, Georgia. Encountering a Union army outpost guard, Kellogg asked what regiment he was from. “The First Wisconsin Cavalry”  was the reply and Kellogg and his men went wild with celebration. They had successfully crossed three hundred miles to safety. And the two men that had gotten separated from the group early on had made it out too, taking a more northern route and reaching Union li­nes at Chattanooga.

 

Photo:

BrigGen John A.Kellog (vgl. http://ironbrigader.com/2011/03/06/capture-escape-captain-john-a-kellogg-iron-brigades-6th-wisconsin-infantry/)

 

Documents/Literature::

- Kellog, John A.: Letter vom 1.11.1865 an John B. Bachelder; in Bachelder Papers, New Hampshire Historical Society, Concord, New Hampshire

- Kellog, John Azor: Capture and Escape: a narrative of army and prison life (1908)

- Nolan: Iron Brigade, a.a.O., S. 18, 39, 70, 128, 138, 139, 200, 280-281; background and pre-war career, S. 14; capture and escape, S. 200; commands brigade, S. 279; comissioned colonel S. 279, 378 (n. 58, Epilogue), commissioned major 378 (n. 58, Epilogue), Cutler's Adjutant S. 197.

 

 

Kellog, Josiah H.:

US-Col; 17th Pennsylvania Cavalry (vgl. Martin: Gettysburg, July 1, a.a.O., S. 39). 1863 während der Gettysburg Campaign gehörte das Regiment (9 Co.’s) zur Cavalry Division John Buford, 2nd Brigade Col Thomas C. Devin (vgl. Martin: Gettysburg, July 1, a.a.O., S. 575, 39).

 

 

Kellog, L. D., Dr.:

US-Surgeon, 17th Illinois Infantry (vgl. Cole: The Era of the Civil War, a.a.O., S. 335).

 

Documents/Literature::

- Moyer, Henry P.: History of the Seventeenth Regiment Pennsylvania Volunteer Cavalry (Lebanon, Pa.: Sowers Printing Co., 1911)

 

 

Kellogg, Robert H.:

US-Sergeant Major; Co. A, 16th Regiment Connecticut Infantry (vgl. National Park Soldiers M535 Roll 9).

 

Documents/Literature::

- Kellogg, Robert (16th Connecticut Infantry): Life and Death in Rebel Prisons. Giving a complete history of the inhuman and barba­rous treatment of our brave soldiers by rebel authorities, inflicting terrible suffering and frightful mortality, principally at Anderson­ville, GA., Florence, SC., describing plans of escape, arrival of prisoners, with numerous and varied incidents and anecdotes of pri­son life (Stebbins, Hartford 1865)

 

 

 

Kelly, Isaiah F.:

US-Corpporal; 1863 Co B 6th Wisconsin Infantry (vgl. Martin: Gettysburg, a.a.O., S. 131, 134).

 

Documents/Literature::

- Kelly, Isaiah: Letter to Rufus R. Dawes, 2. August 1892, Dawes Papers; State Historical Society of Wisconsin

 

 

Kelly, J. H.:

US-LtCol; Regimentskommandeur 114th Ohio Infantry, 9th Division Osterhaus, XIII. Army Corps McClernand während Grant's Campaign gegen Vicksburg 1863 (vgl. Bearss: Vicksburg, vol. II, S. 402). Battle of Port Gibson am 1.5.1863 (vgl. Bearss: Vicksburg, vol. II, S. 402).

 

 

Kelly, James H.:

US-Sgt; 70th Indiana Infantry (vgl. Castel: Decision in the West, a.a.O., S. 188)

 

Documents/Literature::

- Kelly, James H.: Journal (Indiana Historical Society, Indianapolis)

 

 

Kelly, John:

US-Pvt; Co. B, 7th Regiment Rhode Island Infantry (vgl. National Park Soldiers M555 Roll 4).

 

 

Kelly, John Herbert:

CS-BrigGen, 1840-1864; Kelly war 1862 Major 9th (14th) Arkansas (Battalion); Im Frühjahr 1862 und im Battle of Shiloh gehörte das 9th Arkansas Infantry Battalion zur 3rd Brigade BrigGen Sterling A. M. Wood III. Army Corps MajGen William J. Hardee in A. S. Johnston’s Army of the Mississippi (vgl. Daniel: Shiloh, a.a.O., S. 321; Grant: The Opposing Forces at Shiloh; in: B&L I 539).

 

Kelly wurde der jüngste General der CSA und ist im November 1864 bei einem Cavalry Raid auf Franklin / Tennessee gefallen (vgl. Daniel: Shiloh, a.a.O., S. 150; Boatner, a.a.O., S. 450)

 

Documents/Literature::

- Boatner, a.a.O., S. 450

- Daniel: Shiloh, a.a.O., S. 150

- o.A.: "Major John H. Kelly." Alabama Historical Quarterly, vol. IX (1947), S. 9-114

- Warner: Generals in Gray, a.a.O., S. 168-169

 

 

Kelly, John R.:

US-Corporal; Co. G, 7th Regiment Ohio Infantry (vgl. National Park Soldiers M552 Roll 57).

 

 

Kelly, Joseph:

CS-+++; CS-+++; Soldat der Britischen Armee; ausgewandert nach Missouri; im Frühjahr 1861 Captain in der Missouri Miliz (vgl. Duke: War Reminiscenses, a.a.O., S. 52).

 

 

Kelly, Michael R:

US-Pvt; Co. K, 7th Regiment Rhode Island Infantry (vgl. National Park Soldiers M555 Roll 4).

 

 

Kelly, Patrick:

US-Col; während des Battle of Fredericksburg am 13.12.1862 Regimentskommandeur 68th New York Infantry (Meagher's Irish Bri­gade)

 

Während der Gettysburg Campaign 1863 war Kelly Brigadekommandeur 2nd Brigade, 1st Division BrigGen John C. Caldwell, II. Army Corps Winfield S. Hancock.

 

Documents/Literature::

- OR 21:241

 

 

Kelso, Captain:

CS-Captain; aus Louisiana; Co. K 2nd Louisiana Infantry. Während McClellan's Peninsular Campaign eingesetzt bei Dam Nr. 1 am 16.4.1862 (vgl. Confederate Military History, a.a.O., vol. X, S. 211; vgl. Report of Col Levy, OR 11.1 S. 420-421).

 

 

Kelsey, Stephen:

US-Pvt; 5th New York Infantry

 

Documents/Literature::

- Kelsey, Stephen: Papers, 1865, 1920. Virginia Tech, Univ. Libraries, Special Collections: Civil War guide: Manuscript Sources for Civil War Research in the Special Collections Department of the Virginia Tech Libraries; 0.1 cu. ft., Ms90-029. Union soldier in the 5th New York Regiment, Battalion J. Papers include a diary written between January and May, 1865, while stationed in New York and Virginia. Participated in the occupation of Petersburg, Virginia, in April 1865. Entries refer to the assassination of Pres. Abra­ham Lincoln and the capture of Jefferson Davis. Also includes a typescript essay by Ernest Flint Kelsey (Stephen Kelsey's son) commen­ting on the diary. Ms90-029.

 

 

Kelton, John C.:

US-Col, Co. F&S, 59th Regiment Illinois Infantry (vgl. National Park Soldiers M539 Roll 48)

 

 

Kelton, John Cunningham:

US-Col; 24.6.1828 Delaware County/PA - † 15.6.1893 Washington; S. v. Robert Keltin und Margaretta Ross (vgl. findagrave.com); USMA 1851 (26/42); Inf.-Adj. Gen. He served on the frontier and taught at West Point before becoming Chief Purchasing Comsy. at St. Louis 11.5.1861-5.8.1861. Named Capt. Asst. Gen. 3.8.1861; he served in the Depts. Of the West and of the Mo. until 11.3.1862, when he went to the Dept. of the Miss. As Col 9th Missouri Infantry Regiment 19.9.1861 (resigned) 12.3.1862) and Col. Add. A.D.A. 4.1.1862, he was at Corinth and served as Halleck's Asst. Adj. Gen. 11.7.1862-1.7.1865. Continuing in the Regular Army, he war brevetted four times for war service, including BrigGen USA. He retired in 1892 as BriogGen USA, then Adj.Gen. (vgl. Boatner: civil War Dictionary, a.a.O., S. 451.452).

 

Lt. Kelton war 1859 in West Point in charge of the Dept. of Fencing, Target Firing (vgl. Alexander: Figh­ting for the Confederacy, a.a.O., S. 13); anschließend von Juni bis Herbst 1859 auf Studienreise in Europa; Assistant Adjutant Gene­ral unter Halleck in Wa­shington (vgl. Hitchcock, Marching with Sherman, a.a.O., S. 25; (vgl. Porter: Campaining with Grant, a.a.O., S. 17). Im Sommer 1862 war Kelton Stabsoffizier im War Department in Washington. Er war persönlich bekannt mit Charles Francis *Adams jr und un­terrichtete diesen Ende August 1862 über die Stimmung gegen MajGen John Pope, was Adams in seinem Brief vom 27.8.1862 (ge­schrieben in *Willard's Hotel in Washington) an seinen Vater Charles Francis *Adams, dem US-Botschafter in London, treffend wie­der gibt (zitiert bei Sears: Landscape turned Red, a.a.O., S. 1; Ford, Worthington Chauncey (ed): Cycle of Adams Letters, 1861-1865, vol. I, S. 177-78).

 

Kelton wurde nach der Schlacht von 2nd Bull Run vom War Department in Washington beauftragt, die Situation der Truppen Pope's zu erkunden und fand die Situation „very different“ von den Berichten Popes. The President should know, said Kelton, that all the roads leading to to the capital were clogged with stragglers, perhaps 30.000 in number. Furthermore, these troops, and their officers, still standing with their commands were severly demoralized (vgl. Sears: Controversies & Commanders, a.a.O., S.87).

 

 

Kemper, Delaware:

CS-+++Offizier; führte am 17.6.1861 bei *Vienna eine Artillerie-Batterie, die einen US-Zug unter dem Kommando von BrigGen *Schenck beschoß (vgl. Alexander: Fighting for the Confederacy, a.a.O., S. 43; OR 2:128-30; vgl. Mosby, Memoirs, a.a.O., S. 27).

 

 

Kemper, James Lawson:

CS-BrigGen; 1823-95; aus Virginia. +++weiter: Boatner: Dictionary, a.a.O., S. 452)+++

 

im Juli 1861 als Col Regimentskommandeur der 7th Virginia Infantry (vgl. Early: War Memoirs, a.a.O., S. 5). Ruffin berichtet von einer gemeinsamen Fahrt mit dem damaligen Col. Kemper in die Schlacht von 1st Manassas (Ruffin, Diary II 55, 56). Kemper war 1863 Brigadekommandeur in Pickett's Division in Gettysburg;

 

Photos:

- Longacre: Pickett, a.a.O., S. 121

 

Urkunden/Documents/Literature::

- Kemper, James L.: Papers. Alderman Library, University of Virginia, Charlottesville/Va.

 

 

Kemper, William Penn:

CS-Corporal; Co. B, 10th Regiment Virginia Infantry (vgl. National Park Soldiers M382 Roll 31; vgl. Krick: Conquering the Valley, a.a.O., S. 280)

 

Documents/Literature::

- Kemper, Benjamin F and Brothers.: Daybook and Inventory (Benjamin F. Kemper and Brothers Daybook and Inventors; Duke Un­iversity, Manuscript Department, Durham, North Carolina)

 

 

Kempster, Walter:

US-+++

 

Documents/Literature::

- Kempster, Walter: "The Cavalry at Gettysburg," War Papers: Wisconsin MOLLUS, 4 (1914): 400

 

 

Kendall, James S.:

CS-Major; Co. K, 26th North Carolina Infantry; er trat als First Lieutenant in das Regiment ein (vgl. National Park Soldiers M230 Roll 21). Er wurde be den Regimentswahlen vom 21.4.1862 zum Major gewählt, aber seine Dienstzeit war kurz. Da er wenig Kontakte zu den anderen Offizieren des Regimentsstabs hatte, bot er bereits am 21.7.1862 seine Resignation an und staeb wenige Monate später an Geldfieber (vgl. Hess: Lee's Tar Heels, a.a.O., S. 28-19; vgl. Unterwood: „Twenty-Sixth Regiment“, a.a.O., S. 328-30).

 

 

Kendall, John Smith:

CS-+++; Teilnahme am Battle of Shiloh (vgl. Daniel: Shiloh, a.a.O., S. 263).

 

Documents/Literature::

- Kendall, John Smith: "Recollections of a Confederate Staff Officer." Louisiana Historical Quarterly, vol. XXIX (October 1946), S. 1041-1071

 

 

Kendall, John T.:

CS-First Leutenant; Co. F; 4th RegimentLouisiana Infantry; er tat als Pvt in das Regiment ein (vgl. National Park Soldiers M378 Roll 15).

 

 

Kendrick, H.:

CS-Pvt; Co. F, 12th Regiment Georgia Infantry (vgl. National Park Soldiers M226 Roll 34).

 

 

Kenly, John R.:

US-MajGen, 1822-91; aus Maryland (vgl. Swank: Courier, a.a.O., S. 20). Regimentskommandeur 1st Maryland Infantry (US-Trup­pen); von Belle Boyd über die gegnerische Truppenreduzierung bei Front Royal unterrichtet, überraschen "Stonewall" Jackson und Ewell mit 16 000 Mann am 23.5.1862 die Unionstruppen unter Oberst John R. Kenly bei Front Royal (Karte bei McPherson, a.a.O., S. 449) im Shenandoah-Tal *Front Royal (Karte bei Davis, a.a.O., Nr. 27.1) an, Jackson manövrierte die US-Kräfte disastouly aus, die in wilder Flucht Winchester zu erreichen suchten, verfolgt von Jackson's Rebs (vgl. Chase: Diary, a.a.O., S. 87 u. 287 Anm. 15). Kenly's Regiment wurde aufgerieben, Stonewall Jackson macht 700 Gefangene. Col. wird bei dem Gefecht schwer verwundet (vgl. Tanner: Stonewall in the Valley, a.a.O., S. 263) und gefangengenommen (vgl. Boatner, a.a.O., S. 453; vgl. Swank: Courier, a.a.O., S. 21). Einen wesentlichen Anteil am Erfolg hatte das 1st Maryland (CS-Truppen; vgl. Swank: Courier, a.a.O., S. 20).

 

 

Kennedy, Robert Cobb:

CS-Captain; John Hunt Morgan's Cavalry (vgl. Horan: Confederate Agent, a.a.O., S. 8). Später CS-Agent. Kennedy stammt aus Loui­siana; in West Point Kamerad von E. P. Alexander; aus West Point entlassen wegen nicht ausreichender Bewertung am 7.1.1855. Kennedy versuchte zusammen mit anderen CS-Agenten New York in Brand zu setzen (vgl. Alexander: Fighting for the Confederacy, a.a.O., S. 8/9); Kennedy war bei Kriegsausbruch - wie Alexander (vgl. Alexander: Fighting for the Confederacy, a.a.O., S. 8) notiert: Soldat "somewhere in our western army & he was taken prisoner, but managed to escape from the Northern prison where he was con­fined & got across to Canada."

 

Anm. zu CS-Geheimdienst Operationen in Canada:

Confederates developed a number of clandestine assets in Canada, initially to support the passage of couriers and other tasks. In 1864 the Confederacy established what amounted to a field office capable of developing and carrying out complex clandestine operations. Jacob *Thompson, the chief, reported to Benjamin and Davis, but he also had the support of a War Department team under the con­trol of eit, a.a.O., S. 751; Kinchen, Oscar A.: Confederate Operations in Canada and the North, North Quincy, Mass., 1970).

 

Alexander berichtet weiter: "While there je joined in a wild, absurd & utterly indefensible scheme to burn N.Y. City gotten up by some Confederate refugees there - on their own responsibility & and without any authority or countenance from Confederate authori­ty. Kennedy & one or two others went to N.Y, & on a certain day Kennedy started a fire in Barnum's Museum on Broadway not far from the Astor House & the others started fires in one or two hotels. All of the fires were soon discovered & extinguished, but it was known that they were a Confederate effort to burn the city & large rewards were offered for those concerned in it. Kennedy had made his escape back to Canada & stayed at Niagara Falls. Some detective went there & managed to get into his confidence & roomed with him & last persuaded Kennedy one day to walk across the suspension bridge with him. He had officers on the lookout with war­rants & no sooner did poor Kennedy set foot on U.S. soil than he was arrested. He was tried, sentenced & hung in old Fort Lafayette." (vgl. Alexander: Fighting for the Confederacy, a.a.O., S. 8/9)

 

Kennedy wurde am 25.3.1865 hingerichtet (vgl. Markle, Spies and Spymasters, a.a.O., S. 93)

 

Documents/Literature::

- Brandt, Nat: "The Man Who Tried to Burn New York (Syracuse, 1986)

 

 

Kent, Charles N.:

US-1stLt; Co. C, 17th Regiment New Hampshire Infantry (vgl. Kent: 17th New Hampshire Infantry, a.a.O., S. 60; Anm. bei National Park Soldiers nicht genannt)

 

Documents/Literature::

- Kent, Charles (Lieutenant 17th New Hampshire): History oh the 17th Regiment, New Hampshire Volunteer Infantry 1862-1863 (Rumford Press, Concord / NH 1898); Rosters, Appendix, Illustrated (Bibliothek Ref PDF-Dabei ameridownload New Hampshire 17th Infantry)

 

 

Kent, Lewis A.:

US-Captain; Co. GDA, 6th Regiment Wisconsin Infantry; er trat als Pvt in das Regiment ein (vgl. National Park Soldiers M559 Roll 16; vgl. Herdegen/Beaudot: Bloody Railroad Cut, a.a.O., S. 41n25).

 

Urkunden/Documents/Literature::

- Kent, Lewis A.: „Capt. Kent's Memory,“ Milwaukee Sunday Telegraph, September 15, 1887

 

 

Kercher, Jacob:

US-Lt, 9th Illinois Infantry (vgl. Morrison: "History of the 9th Regiment Illinois Volunteer Infantry", a.a.O., S. 7).

 

 

Kern, Joseph M.:

CS-+++; 13th Virginia Infantry (vgl. Tanner: Stonewall in the Valley, a.a.O., S. 575).

 

Documents/Literature::

- Kern, Joseph M.: Letters. Unpublished wartime letters of Joseph M. Kern of the 13th Virginia Infantry; scattered sates, with types­cript "Memorandum History of Movements of Hampshire Guards, Co. K, 13th Virginia Infantry, CSA" (Southern Historical Society Collection, Chapel Hill, North Carolina)

 

 

Kerns, William Franklin:

US-Captain / Asskistant Quartermaster

 

In April 1685 Captain Kerns was the Assistant Quartermaster in charge of river transportation for the Department of Mississippi. Kerns, who was from St. Peter/Minnesota, had enlisted and served with the 9th Regiment Minnesota Infantry, but in 1864, at the age of twenty-four, he had accepted a commission as an assistant quartermaster of the US Vols with the rank of captain. By July 1864, Kerns was reassigned to the Department of Mississippi and stationed in Vicksburg (vgl. Potter: Sultana Trahedy, a.a.O., S, 27).

 

Urkunden/Documents/Literature::

- Military Record of Capt. William Franklin Kerns, Records of the Adjutant General's Office, Record Group 94, National Archives, Wasahington/DC

 

 

Kerr, J. Fetter:

US-Sgt; Co. I 133rd Pennsylvania Infantry; an einer Erkrankung gestorben Anfang Dezember 1862 nahe Fredericksburg (vgl. Gal­lagher u.a.: Fredericksburg, a.a.O., S. 85).

 

 

Kerr, John H.:

US-+++; 155th Pennsylvania Infantry

 

Documents/Literature::

- Kerr, John H.: Oration Delivered at the First Reunion of the One Hundred and Fifty-Fifth Regiment, Penn’a Veteran Volunteers, at Lafayette Hall, Pittsburg ... September 17, 1675 (Pittsburg: Samuel F. Kerr, 1875)

 

 

Kerr, Thomas:

US-Lt; seit 1.7.1863 Companiechef Co D 6th Wisconsin Infantry (vgl. Dawes: Full Blown Yankee, a.a.O., S. 168).

 

 

Kerrigan, James C.:

US-Jounalist; New York Herald (vgl. Nosworthy: Bloody Crucible, a.a.O., S. 130).

 

 

Kershaw, Joseph Brevard:

CS-BrigGen; 1861 Col. Kershaw's 2nd South Carolina Infantry (Ruffin, Diary II 40, 56; Davis: Battle of Bull Run, a.a.O., S. 106), darunter als Kompanie die Palmetto Guards;

 

Kershaw’s Brigade nahm teil am Battle of Antietam (Sharpsburg) und South Mountain (14.-17.9.1862), wobei die Brigade nur in Harper's Ferry eingesetzt war. Während Jacksons Angriff auf Harper's Ferry 13.-17.9.1862 griff Kershaw's Brigade die strategisch wichtigen Maryland Heights nördlich von Harper's Ferry an (vgl. Cannan, Antietam, a.a.O., S. 76 ff.). Die Brigade umfaßte 1862 folgende Regimenter:

- 2nd South Carolina Infantry (Col. John D. Kennedy)

- 3rd South Carolina Infantry (Col. James D. Nance)

- 7th South Carolina Infantry (Col. D. Wyatt Aiken)

- 8th South Carolina Infantry (Col. John W. Henagen)

 

Während der Gettysburg Campaign gehörte Kershaw's Brigade zum I. Army Corps Longstreet, 1st Division (McLaws's Division) MajGen Lafayette und umfaßte folgende Regimenter:

- 2nd South Carolina Col J. D. Kennedy (w), LtCol F. Gaillard

- 3rd South Carolina Major R. C. Maffett, Col J. D. Nance

- 7th South Carolina Col D. Wyatt Aiken

- 8th South Carolina Col J. W. Henagan

- 15th South Carolina Col W. G. De Saussure (k), Major William M. Gist

- 3rd South Carolina Battalion LtCol W. G. Rice

 

Die Brigade kam am 2.7.1863 ins Gefecht und bildete die Spitzenbrigade Longstreet's bei dessen Vorrücken gegen den linken Flügel der US-Front bei Peach Orchard an der Emmitsburg Road (vgl. Penny / Laine: Struggle for the Round Tops, a.a.O., S. 28 mit Karte S. 29). Der linke Flügel der Brigade stützte sich auf die Emmitsburg Road und erstreckte sich in Front über die Warwick Ridge in Front auf Peach Orchard. Als Kershaw's Männer aus dem Wald bei Warwick Ridge nach Osten vorstießen, erkannte Kershaw zu seiner Überraschung, daß auf seiner linken ungeschützten Flanke sich überraschend US-Truppen befanden. Es handelte sich hierbei um die auf Grund eines Führungsfehlers zu weit nach vorn gezogene III. US-Corps unter MajGen Daniel E. Sickles. Lee's Angriffplan sah einen Ablenkungsangriff auf die US-Nordfront bei Cemetary Ridge durch das Corps Ewell vor, einen weiteren zur Ablenkung ge­führten zentralen Angriff auf die US-Front durch Corps von A. P. Hill, während gleichzeitig Longstreet auf den schwachen linken US-Flügel bei Peach Orchard und die Höhen nördlich von Big Round Top angesetzt war. Dieser angriffsplan mußte nun in letzter Mi­nute, wegen der unerwarteten Aufstellung des III.US-Corps Sickles' geändert werden. Anstelle eines Angriffs durch die links einge­setzte Division McLaws mit der Brigade Kershaw, erfolgte nunmehr der Angriff durch die rechts eingesetzte Division Hood, der sich im Echelon McLaws Division anschließen sollte (vgl. Penny / Laine: Battle for the Round Tops, a.a.O., S. 26-30).

 

Documents/Literature::

- Dickert, D. Augustus: History of Kershaw's Brigade (Originally published in 1899; Reprint Broadfoot); 730 pp; Complete Rosters with Supplement; with Complete Role of Companies, Biographical Sketches, Incidents, Anecdotes, etc. Nevins calls this „A full, thick account of a famous South Carolina brigade; the author gives personal descriptions of campaigns in both East and West“

- **Kershaw, Joseph B.: „Kershaw's Brigade at Gettysburg,“ in: B&L, a.a.O., 3:331-338

 

 

Kerwin, Michael:

US-Major; Co. F&S, 13th Pennsylvania Cavalry (vgl. National Park Soldiers M554 Roll 64).

 

Teilnahme an der vom Col Schall befehligten Aufklärung vom 12.6.1863 südlich von Winchester/VA mit 5 Kompanien des 87th Re­giment Pennsylvania Infantry, a battalion on the 13rd Pennsylvania Cavalry und 2 guns of Battery L, Fifth US Artillery, mit einer Ge­samtstärke von 700 Mann; hierbei war Kerwin the advance guard commander (vgl. Nye: Here come the Rebels, a.a.O., S. 74).

 

Am 13.6.1863 kam es um 9:30 bei Winchester zu einem Cavalry Skirmish zwischen Major James H. *Nounnan's Cavalry (16th Re­giment Virginia Cavalry) und Teilen 13rd Pennsylvania Cavalry unter Major Michael *Kerwin (vgl. Nye: Here come the Rebels, a.a.O., S. 79; vgl. OR XXVII, Pt. 2, pp. 70, 73, 440; vgl. Hotchkiss: Diary, a.a.O., vom 13.6.1863).

 

 

Kesland, Jacob:

US-Pvt; Co. B, 1st Regiment Massachusetts Infantry (vgl. National Park Soldiers M544 Roll 22); Res. East Boston; 28 y.; cooper; enl. Aug. 4, 1862; must. Aug. 13, 1862; † Aug. 10, 1863, of wounds reed, at Gettysburg, Penna., July 2, 1863 (vgl. Massachusetts Adju­tant General: Massa­chusetts Sol­diers , a.a.O., vol 1, p. 12); buried Gettysburg National Cemetery.

 

 

Ketcham, Delazon:

US-Pvt; Co E 29th Wisconsin Infantry.

 

Documents/Literature::

- Ketcham, Delazon: Letters written from Helena in 1862 and 1863

 

 

Ketcham, John:

US-Lt; 120th New York Infantry (?)

 

Documents/Literature::

- Duganne, A. J. H.: The Fighting Quakers: A True Story of the War of our Union (Schroeder Publications, 120 pp, Photos, Reprint of 1866 Original). The story of two brothers and as cousin who were killed in the war - Lt Edward Katcham (120th NY Vols) and Lt John Ketcham and Capt Nehemiah Mann (4th NY Cavalry)

 

 

 

Kettell, Thomas Prentice:

Journalist; früherer Herausgeber der 'Democratic Review'; er veröffentlichte 1857 ein Buch unter dem Titel 'Southern Wealth and Northern Profits', das die sektionalen Spannungen nach Ende der Wirtschaftskrise verdeutlichte; Kettell gab die verbreitete Ansicht des Südens wieder, der Norden schöpfe die Gewinne aus dem Baumwollhandel ab und beute den Süden aus (vgl. Nevins, Emergence of Lincoln, vol. I, a.a.O., S. 218).

 

Documents/Literature::

- Kettell, Thomas P.: History of the Great Rebellion (Hartford 1866)

 

 

Ketzle, Henry:

US-Sergeant; geboren in Deutschland 1835; Pvt. Co. A 37th Illinois Infantry; enlisted at Little Rock a, 14.8.1861; am 7.3.1762 Battle of Pea Ridge; das Regiment war im Rahmen von Julius *White's Brigade, 3rd Division Jefferson C. *Davis eingesetzt im Wald ost­wärts Oberson's Field an der Leetown Road. Es stieß überraschend im dichten Unterholz auf Truppen der CS-Brigade Louis *Hébert (vgl. Shea / Hess: Pea Ridge, a.a.O., S. 122 mit Karten S. 108 und 223). Reinlisted als Veteran am 10.2.1864, ausgemustert als Ser­geant am 15.5.1866.

 

Documents/Literature::

- Ketzle, Henry: Memoir (Mullins Collection, Wayne / New Jersey)

 

 

Key, John J.:

US-LtCol; 60th Regiment Indiana Infantry (vgl. National Park Soldiers M540 Roll 41)

 

 

Key, John J.:

US-Major; Bruder von Col. Thomas M. *Key aus McClellan's Stab (vgl. Sears: Controversies & Commanders, a.a.O., S. 134-135).

 

Major Key hatte nach der Schlacht von Antietam gegenüber Levi C. *Turner, judge advocate at the War Department in Washington auf die Frage, warum McClellan die bei Antietam geschlagene Lee's Army of the Northern Virginia nicht verfolgt und endgültig ver­nichtet habe, geantwortet: „The object is that neither army shall get much advantage of the other; that both shall be kept in the field till they are exhausted, when we will make a compromise and save slavery“ (vgl. Sears: Controversies & Commanders, a.a.O., S. 134-135). Diese Bemerkung wurde Präsident Lincoln berichtet, dem wiederholt Gerüchte über eine bevorstehende Revolte der Offi­ziere der Army of the Potomac zugetragen worden waren. Durch Col. Thomas M. *Key aus McClellan's Stab waren Gerüchte über eine Conspiracy gegen die Lincoln Regierung in die Presse lanciert worden. Lincoln suchte nun ein Exempel zu statuieren und ord­nete daraufhin die Entlassung von Masjor John J. Key an, wegen „silly treasonable talk, because I feared it was staff talk & I wanted an example“. No doubt an injustice was done to the hapless Major Key, but as a signal to the officers of the Army of the Potomac it was unmistacable (vgl. Sears: Controversies & Commanders, a.a.O., S. 135).

 

 

Key, Thomas J.:

CS-Captain; Key's Battery Arkansas Light Artillery (vgl. National Park Soldiers M376 Roll 13).

 

Artillery Officer; aus Helena / Arkansas; Vorkriegszeit: Journalist und Zeitungsverleger in Helena; während seines Ur­laubs 1864 gelang Key ein Besuch bei seiner Familie, die im US-besetzten Helena lebte. Key beschreibt in seinem Tagebuch die Ge­fahren dieser Reise und sein mehrmaliges knappes Entkommen (vgl. Castel: Decision in the West, a.a.O., S. 34). 1864 war Key Bat­teriechef der Arkansas Battery, Cleburne's Division (vgl. Castel: Decision in the West, a.a.O., S. 89; B & L, vol. IV, a.a.O., S. 290), Key's Battery (vgl. Castel: Decision in the West, a.a.O., S. 106). Die Battery gehörte zu 1864 Hotchkiss’ Battalion, Hardee’s Corps, Army of Tennessee (vgl. B & L, vol. IV, a.a.O., S. 290) und war zu Cleburne's Division detachiert (vgl. Castel: Decision in the West, a.a.O., S. 89). Key war stellvertretender Kommandeur von Hotchkiss' Battalion (vgl. B & L, vol. IV, a.a.O., S. 290).

 

Documents/Literature::

- **Key, Thomas J.: Two Soldiers: The Campaign Diaries of Thos. J. Key, C.S.A., and Robt. J. Campbell, U.S.A., ed. Armistead Cate (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1938)

 

 

Key, Thomas M.:

US-Col; Vorkriegszeit Attorney und Judge in Cincinnati, er bat US-Finanzminister Chase am 11.1.1862 um Rat vor einem Gespräch mit Gen McClellan (vgl. Chase: Diary, a.a.O., S. 59/60); dann aide de Camps von Gen McClellan; nach der Antietam Campaign von Präsident Lincoln scharf getadelt und aus der Armee ausgeschlossen, weil Key geäußert hatte "that it would have been impolitic and injudicious to have destroyed the enemy army" (vgl. Chase: Diary, a.a.O., S. 281 Anm. 24).

 

Col Key hörte von der Unzufriedenheit der Offiziere der Army of the Potomac mit der Regierung in Washington, der vorgeworfen wurde, durch mangelnde Unterstützung McClellan's dessen Strategie während der Peninsular Campaign unterlaufen zu haben. Key berichtete seinem früheren Anwaltsfreund und damaligen Korrespondent ner New York Tribune, „that a plan to countermarch to Wa­shington aynd intimidate the President had been seriously duscussed the night before of members of McClellan's staff“ (vgl. Sears: Controversies & Commanders, a.a.O., S. 134).

 

Bruder von US-Major John J. Key (vgl. Sears: Controversies & Commanders, a.a.O., S. 134).

 

 

Keyes, Erasmus Darvin:

US-GenMaj; 29.5.1810 Brimfield/Massachusetts - † 14.10.1895 Nizza, Departement des Alpes-Maritimes, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, France; beerd. US Military Academy West Point/NY Cemetery (vgl. http://www. findagrave.com).

 

West Point 1832; ab Nov. 1861 Divisionskommandeur Keyes Division (vgl. Rhodes, Elisha Hunt:: All for the Union, a.a.O., S. 40). Während McClellan's Peninsular Campaign im Frühjahr 1862 befehligte Keyes den linken Flügel beim Vormarsch von Fort Monroe gegen die Verteidigungslinie *Magruder's vor Yorktown. Keyes Corps ging über die einzige Hauptstraße auf der Peninsular vor ge­gen Lee's Mill, wo die Straße den Warwick River überquerte und die CS-Hauptverteidi­gungslinie kreuzte (vgl. Dowdey, Seven Days, a.a.O., S. 44-45 mit Karte S. 44). Keyes führt das IV. Korps der Potomac-Armee in der Schlacht von Seven Pines (Photo in Längin, a.a.O., S. 102).

 

Civil War Union Major General. He commanded the IV Corps of the Union Army of the Potomac during the first half of the Ameri­can Civil War. The son of a renowned physician and surgeon, he moved with his family to Kennebec County, Maine as a youth. He decided to pursue a military career and enrolled in the US Military Academy at West Point, New York, graduating 10th out of a class of 45 in 1832, and was commissioned a brevet second lieutenant in the 3rd US Artillery. He served in Charleston Harbor during the nullification crisis of 1832 to 1833, and served as an aide to General Winfield Scott from 1837 to 1841. After being promoted to the rank of captain in November 1841, he served in various garrisons until 1844 and then functioned as an artillery and cavalry instructor at US Military Academy. In 1854 he was sent with the US 3rd Artillery Regiment around Cape Horn to California and served on the Pacific frontier in garrison duty and Native American campaigns in the Northwest. Promoted to the rank of major in October 1858, he returned to Washington DC near the end of 1859 and became General Winfield Scott's military secretary from January until April 1861. In May 1861, after the outbreak of the Civil War, he was promoted to the rank of colonel of the 11th U.S. Infantry, serving briefly on the staff of New York Governor Edwin D. Morgan until June 25, 1861, overseeing that state's raising of militia. On July 21, 1861, at the First Battle of Bull Run, he commanded the 1st Brigade, 1st Division (Tyler), and then led Keyes's Brigade, before assuming command of a division from November 1861 until March 13, 1862. In August 1861 he was promoted to the rank of briga­dier general of volunteers with date of rank of May 17, 1861, the third-ranking brigadier general in the Army. He was then given command of IV Corps, leading it from its inception on March 3, 1862, until its discontinuation on August 1, 1863. He saw action at Lee's Mill, Yorktown, Bottom's Bridge, Savage's Station, Seven Pines (Fair Oaks), Charles City Cross Roads, Malvern Hill, and Har­rison's Landing. For gallantry at Fair Oaks, Keyes received the brevet of brigadier general in the regular army. On March 12, 1863, President Abraham Lincoln nominated Keyes for promotion to the grade of major general, U.S. Volunteers, to rank from May 5, 1862 and the US Senate confirmed the award on March 13, 1862. In addition to the IV Corps, he commanded the Yorktown District, VII Corps, and the division at Suffolk. Among Keyes's other military actions were the raid to White House, Virginia, on January 7, 1863, and the expedition to West Point, Virginia, on May 7, 1863. During the Gettysburg Campaign in July 1863, he fell afoul of General John Adams Dix's strategic plan to demonstrate heavily against Richmond in order to divert Confederate reinforcements from Gene­ral Robert E. Lee's army in Pennsylvania. He retreated from a position near what is now Tallysville, Virginia, in the face of what Dix deemed to be inferior forces, so Dix had Keyes removed from command. He requested an investigation of the charges that led to his removal but it was never granted. He then served on various boards and commissions, including the board for retiring disabled offi­cers from July 1863, until his resignation and retirement from the US Army in May 1864, with 32 years of continued military service. Following his retirement, he moved to San Francisco, California where he became financially successful and prominent. He was president of a Mexican gold mining company from 1867 to 1869, and vice president of the California vine-culture society from 1868 to 1872. He also was engaged in the savings and loan business. He was the author of "The Rear Guard at Malvern Hill" as part of The Century Company's "Battles and Leaders of the Civil War" series, as well as "Fifty Years' Observation of Men and Events" (1884), later reprinted as "Fighting Indians in Washington Territory" (1988). His work "From West Point to California" was published posthumously in 1950. While on a trip to Europe with his wife, he died in Nice, France, at age of 85 (vgl. http://www. findagrave.com).

 

°° II 1862 mit Mary Loughborough (1831-1907; sie °° I mit George W. P. Bissel); Vater von Dr. Henry Elmo Keyes (vgl. http://www. findagrave.com).

 

Photo:

- Milhollen / Kaplan: Divided We Fought, a.a.O., S. 54

- Gen. Erasmus Darwin Keyes (vgl. http://www. findagrave.com).

 

Documents/Literature::

- Keyes, Erasmus D.: Fifty Years' Observation of Men and Events (New York, 1885)

 

 

Keys, John:

US-Captain; Commanding Officer der 1st Squadron Pennsylvania Cavalry, die umfaßte die Ringgold and Washington Cavalry (s. Captain Andrew J. Greenfield); Einsatz im Battle of Kernstown am 23.3.1862 (vgl. OR 12 [I]: 355; 357-358 [Keys' Report])

 

 

Kidd, James Harvey:

US-Col; Co. F&S, 6th Regiment Michigan Cavalry; prior he was Captain, Co. E, 6th Regiment Michigan Cavalry (National Park Soldiers M545 Roll 22).

 

Documents/Literature::

- Kidd, James Harvey (6th Michigan Cavalry): Personal Recollections of a Cavalryman with Custer's Cavalry Brigade in the Civil War (Time Life, NY 1983); As New Condition; Reprint; Originally Published in 1908; 476 pp, Maps, Photos, Roster of men killed in battles; Nevins says "...this remains a basic source for federal cavalry operations in the East."

 

 

Kidd, Reuben Vaughan:

CS-Captain; zunächst Lt, dann Captain Co A 4th Alabama Infantry. 1863 während der Gettysburg Campaign gehörte die 4th Alabama Infantry zu Longstreet’s I. Corps, 1st Division Hood, 4th Brigade BrigGen Evander McIver Law. Kidd ist gefallen in der Schlacht von Chickamauga (19./20. Sept. 1863).

 

Photo:

- Penny / Laine: Struggle for the Round Tops, a.a.O., S. 14

 

Documents/Literature::

- **Pierrepont, Alice V. D.: Reuben Vaughan Kidd, soldier of the Confederacy, Petersburg, 1947

 

 

Kiefer, William R.:

US-Sergeant; Co. A, 153rd Regiment Pennsylvania Infantry (vgl. National Park Soldiers M554 Roll 65).

 

Documents/Literature::

- Kiefer, William R.: History of the 153rd Regiment Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry (Originally issued in 1909, reprint Butternut & Blue); 352 pp plus added 52 page pamphlet with pencil annotations by a member of the regiment; this regiment lost 247 out of 550 at Gettysburg

- Kiefer, William: Diary, 1862-63; Gregory A. Coco Collection Library and Research Center, Gettysburg National Military Park (Sgt. William Kiefer, Co. F, 153rd PA INF Diary, 1862-63)

 

 

Kigar, John:

US-Corporal; Co. A, 68th Regiment Ohio Infantry (vgl. National Park Soldiers M552 Roll 58).

 

6.9.1843 Hancock County/Ohio - † 4.3.1873 Colton, Henry County/Ohio; beerd. Heath-Colton Cemetery, Colton/Ohio; S. v. Bennett Kigar (1812 Virginia - † 1981 Colton/Ohio) und Catherina Shunk Kigar; °° 29.1.1867 in Henry County/Ohio mit Emeline Frederick Adams (1844 – 1914); mustered in on 1.10.1861 in Napoleon/Henry County/Ohio (vgl. www.findagrave.com, Abruf vom 29.6.2016).

 

Photo:

- www.findagrave.com

 

 

Killgore, Gabriel M.:

CS-Captain; 17th Louisiana Infantry; im März 1863 war das Regiment eingesetzt nördlich von Vicksburg (vgl. Bearss: Vicksburg Campaign, a.a.O., S. xv).

 

Documents/Literature::

- Killgore, Gabriel M.: “Vicksburg Diary, the Journal of Gabriel M. Killgore”; edited by Gouglas Maynard. Civil War History, vol. X (1964)

 

 

Kilpatrick, Judson Hugh:

US-MajGen; 1836-81; aus New York; West-Point 1861 (17. von 45); US-Berufsoffizier; Artillerie/Cavalry; 2nd Lt 6.5.1861; Captain 9.5.1861; Kilpatrick diente nach Kriegsausbruch zunächst als Captain in Duryee's Zouaves, and later went on to lead the 2nd New York Cavalry.

 

Col 2nd New York Cavalry; Col Judson H. *Kilpatrick unternimmt am 22./23.7.1862 mit Abteilungen seines 2nd New York Cavalry Regiments (Harris Light Cavalry), der 3rd Indiana Cavalry und der 14th Brooklyn Cavalry (Division BrigGen Rufus King, McDowell's Corps, Pope's Army of Virginia) von Fredericksburg (vgl. Stackpole: From Cedar Mountain, a.a.O., S. 28) aus einen Vorstoß gegen ein Camp der CS-Truppen, welches bei *Carmel Church, VA. (Karte bei Davis Nr. 100.1) vermutet wurde; dort legt er einen Hinterhalt, verfolgt angreifende Rebellen bis kurz vor Hanover Junction, wo er das CS-Camp zerstört und wird schließ­lich von überlegenen Kräften unter Jeb Stuart vertrieben (vgl. Kilpatrick's Report: OR 12 [2] S. 102-103; King's Report: OR 12 [2] S. 102; Mosocco: Chronological Tracking of the Civil War, a.a.O., S. 77). +++ kommt durch einen Kavallerie-Raid gegen die Rebellen­metropole Richmond +++ zu zweifelhaftem Ruhm.

 

Teilnahme an Stoneman's Raid vers. Richmond während der Chancellorsville Campaign (28.4.-6.5.1863) (vgl. Battles and Leaders III, S. 153; Mackowski/White: Chancellorsville's Forgotten Front, p. 27; Glazier: Three Years in three Federal Cavalry, p. 165 ff.).

 

Während Sherman's Atlanta Campaign war Kilpatrick Divisionskommandeur der 3rd Cavalry Division der Army of the Cumberland (vgl. B & L, vol. IV, S. 287). Er klärte am 13.5.1864 aus dem Sugar Valley in Richtung Resaca auf und wurde durch einen Beinschuß verwundet (vgl. Castel: Decision in the West, a.a.O., S. 151).

 

Documents/Literature::

- **Glazier, Willard (2nd New York Cavalry): Three Years in the Federal Cavalry (New York 1872)

- **Moore, James (Surgeon, 9th PA Cavalry): Kilpatrick and Our Cavalry (New York 1865, First Edition

- **Nourse, John A.: Untitled typescript account of Kilpatrick’s Raid in Robert H. G. Minty Papers. US Army Military History Institut, Carlisle, Pennsylvania

- Ohio MOLLUS Sketches of War History Volume Six, Transcribed by Larry Stevens : · Raid of the Union Cavalry, Commanded by General Judson Kilpatrick: Around the Confederate Army in Atlanta, August, 1864, Captain William L. Curry.

 

unterscheide:

Kilpatrick’s Raid around Atlanta August 18-22, 1864.

 

Literatur hierzu:

- Raid of the Union Cavalry, Commanded by General Judson Kilpatrick: Around the Confederate Army in Atlanta, August, 1864 - Captain William L. Curry.

 

Photo:

- Davis / Wiley: Photographic History. Vol: 2: Vicksburg to Appomattox, a.a.O., S. 316 (Gen.s Pleasonton und Kilpatrick im Head­quarter in Castel Murray bei Auburn / Virginia im Oktober 1863

- Brig. Gen. H. Judson Kilpatrick led the disastrous Union cavalry raid on Richmond in late February 1864. (Courtesy of the National Archives)

 

 

Kilpatrick, Robert L.:

US-Col; 5th Ohio Infantry; LtCol 5th Ohio; Teilnahme am Battle of Reseca / Georgia (vgl. Welcher / Ligget: Coburn's Brigade, a.a.O., S. 175).

 

Documents/Literature::

- Ohio MOLLUS Sketches of War History Volume Four , Transcribed by Larry Stevens : The Fifth Ohio Infantry at Resaca - Colonel Robert L. Kilpatrick, U.S.A.

 

 

Kimball, Charles Bell:

US-Pvt; Smith's Battery A, Chicago Illinois Light Artillery (vgl. National Park Soldiers M539 Roll 49).

 

Documents/Literature:

- **Kimball, Charles Bell: History of Battery ‘A’ First Illinois Light Artillery Volunteers (Chicago, 1899)

 

 

Kirkland, Joseph:

US-Captain; zunächst 2ndLt, Co. C, 12th Regiment Illinois Infantry (3 months, 1861) (vgl. National Park Soldiers M539 Roll 49), dann Co. C, 12th Regiment Illinois Infantry (vgl. National Park Soldiers M539 Roll 49).

 

Documents/Literature::

- **Kirkland, Joseph: Papers; Newberry Library, Chicago/Ill.

 

 

Kirkpatrick, Samuel C.:

US-LtCol, 72nd Regiment Indiana Infantry (vgl. Grabstein-Inschrift auf dem Wildcat Cemetery, Lafayette, Tippecanoe County/ In­diana; vgl. www.findagrave.com; vgl. National Park Soldiers M540 Roll 41); zunächst Captain, Co. G, 72nd Regiment Indiana Infan­try (vgl. Magee: Seventy-Second Indiana, a.a.O., S. 16).

 

 

Kilty, A. H.:

US Commander zur See; Kommandeur der USS Mound City; Teilnahme an der Flußschiffschlacht von Plum Point m Battle von Plum Point am 8./9.5.1862 (vgl. Bearss: Hardluck Ironclad, a.a.O., S. 59, 61); hierbei wurde die USS Mound City von der CSS Van Dorn gerammt, schwer beschädigt, flüchtete ins seichte Wasser, wo sie gesunken ist (vgl. Bearss: Hardluck Ironclad, a.a.O., S. 60-62).

 

 

Kimball, Charles B.:

US-1stLt; zunächst First Sergeant, zuletzt 1stLt 1st Independent Battery, Wisconsin Light Artillery (vgl. National Park Soldiers M559 Roll 16).

 

Batteriechef 1st Battery Wisconsin Light Artillery, 9th Division Osterhaus, XIII. Army Corps McClernand während Grant's Cam­paign gegen Vicksburg 1863 (vgl. Bearss: Vicksburg, vol. II, S. 402). Battle of Port Gibson am 1.5.1863 (vgl. Bearss: Vicksburg, vol. II, S. 402).

 

 

Kimball, Nathan:

US-BrigGen; in der Vorkriegszeit Arzt in Loogootee / Indiana (vgl. Thornbrough: Indiana in the Civil War, a.a.O., S. 128).

 

Regiments­kommandeur 14th Indiana Infantry; während der Valley Campaign vom Frühjahr 1862 war Kimball Brigadekommandeur der Briga­de Kimball. Die Brigade gehörte zur Division Shields, Bank’s Army Corps (vgl. OR 12 [I]: 339). Die Brigade bestand aus der 84th Pennsylvania Infantry, 8th Ohio Infantry, 67th Ohio Infantry und 14th Indiana Infantry (vgl. OR 12 [I]: 346); Teilnahme am Battle of Kernstown am 23.3.1862; nach der Verwundung des Divisionskommandeurs übernahm Kimball das Kommando über Shields's Divi­sion (vgl. Kimball’s Report OR 12 [I] 360).

 

Während Lee's Maryland Campaign im September 1862 bestand Kimball's Brigade aus folgenden Regimentern (vgl. Priest: Antie­tam, a.a.O., S. 7): 14th New York, 8th Ohio, 132nd Pennsylvania und 7th West Virginia Infantry.

 

Im Battle von Fredericksburg wurde Kimball erheblich verwundet (vgl. Thornbrough: In­diana in the Civil War, a.a.O., S. 145).

 

 

Kimberly, Robert L.:

US-Col; zunächst LtCol; Co. F&S, 41st Regiment Ohio Infantry; Kimberly trat als 2ndLt in das Regiment (Co. D) ein (vgl. National Park Soldiers M552 Roll 59); später Col 191st Regiment Ohio Infantry (vgl. National Park Soldiers M552 Roll 59).

 

Literatur:

- **Kimberly, Robert and Ephraim Holloway: The 41st Ohio Veteran Volunteer Infantry in the War of the Rebellion, 1861-1865 (Cleve­land 1897, Reprint Blue Acorn); Photos, Full Roster, New Index

 

 

Kimmel, Joseph:

US-Pvt; 51st Ohio Infantry (vgl. Castel: Decision in the West, a.a.O., S. 165); Während Sherman’s Atlanta Campaign 1864 gehörte die 51st Ohio Infantry zur 2nd Brigade BrigGen Walter C. Whitaker, 1st Division MajGen David S. Stanley, IV. Corps MajGen Oli­ver Otis *Howard, MajGen George H. Thomas’ Army of the Cumberland (vgl. B & L vol. IV, S. 284). Teilnahme am Battle of Resaca am 14./15.5.1864. Die Division Stanley war hierbei am äußersten linken Flügel der US-Front eingesetzt, wo sie praktisch in der Luft hing. Gegen diesen Flügel erfolgte der CS-Angriff von Gen Hood mit den Divisionen Stewart und Stevenson mit dem Ziel Sher­man‘s Army zu flankieren und sie von ihren rückwärtigen Verbindungen nach Snake Creek Gap abzuschneiden. Der Angriff wurde erst im letzten Moment, nachdem die US-Front bereits zerbrochen war, durch Captain Simonson‘s Artillery im direkten Beschuß zu­sammen geschossen (vgl. Castel: Decision in the West, a.a.O., S. 163 ff).

 

Documents/Literature::

- **Kimmel, Joseph (Pvt; 51st Ohio Infantry): Reminiscenses Ohio Historical Society, Columbus)

 

 

Kincheloe, W. James:

CS-+++; Co. C, 49th Regiment Virginia Infantry (vgl. Glatthaar: The Common Soldiers Gettysburg Campaign, in: Boritt: The Gettysburg Nobody Knows, a.a.O., S. 10 iVm. S. 224N11).

 

Urkunden/Documents/Literature::

- **Kincheloe, W. James: Diary. 49th Virginia Infantry, Company C Papers, Georgia Department of Archives and History

 

 

King, Benjamin:

CS-Col; 1862 Regimentskommandeur 1st Mississippi Infantry Regiment State Troops (6 Months Service); das Regiment wurde nach Ablauf der Dienstzeit Anfang 1863 ausgemustert (vgl. Sifakis, Compendium of the Confederate Armies, Mississippi, a.a.O., Nr. 131).

 

 

King, Edward:

US-Lieutenant; 66th New York Infantry; King wurde im Spätjahr 1863 wegen Desertion zum Tode verurteilt. Seine Frau Anna S. King wandte sich persönlich an Lincoln, der darauf das Todesurteil suspendierte. King wurde am 13.5.1864 zur Haft auf den Dry Tortugas verurteilt (vgl. Basler: Collected Works of Lincoln, vol. VII, a.a.O., S. 25: Briefe Lincoln's an Meade vom 20.11.1863 mit Anm.).

 

 

King, Huston:

CS-Captain; 2nd Battery Missouri Light Artillery; Teilnahme am Battle of Thompson's Station im März 1863 (vgl. Welcher / Ligget: Coburn's Brigade, a.a.O., S. 56)

 

 

King, James W.:

US-Quartermaster Sergeant; Co. F&S, 11th Regiment Michigan Infantry (1st Organization), zunächst Pvt, Co. A (vgl. National Park Soldiers M545 Roll 22).

 

Documents/Literature::

- Faust, Eric: Conspicious Gallantry: The Civil War and Reconstruction Letters of James W. King, 11tr Michigan Volunteer Infantry (Kent State University Press, 2015)

 

 

King, John M.:

US-Pvt; Co. B, 92nd Regiment Illinois Mounted Infantry (vgl. National Park Soldiers M539 Roll 49); King travelled over 15,000 miles and fought in 33 engagements; a newspaper owner and editor, he left a meticulous diary, rare for the enlisted man of the time

 

Documents/Literature::

- **King, John M. (Pvt, 92nd Illinois Mounted Infantry): Three Years with the 92nd Illinois (Stackpole Books); 288 pp; Diary edited by Claire Swedberg

 

 

King, Porter:

CS-Captain; Co G 4th Alabama Infantry; dropped 21.4.1862

 

 

King, Rufus:

US-BrigGen; Westpoint-Absolvent Jahrgang 1833; King schied auf eigenen Wunsch aus der Armee aus und begann eine Zeitungs­karriere. Er war im März 1861 designierter Botschafter für die "Pontifical States", verzichtete aber auf die Position in der Absicht, als General für Wisconsin im Bürgerkrieg zu dienen. Er wurde am 17.5.1861 zum BrigGen ernannt (Anm. Gaff: If this is War, a.a.O., S. 86 erwähnt bereits am 16.5.1861 "General Rufus King, commander of the First Brigade of Wisconsin active Militia") und war ab Ok­tober 1861 Kommandeur der *Iron Brigade (vgl. Nolan MilAmerik5 S. IX); zum Divisionskommandeur von King's Division am 13.3.1862 befördert.

 

King war im Juli 1862 Divisionskommandeur im Corps McDowell's, Pope's neu aufgestellte Army of Virginia; seine Division stand bei Fredericksburg und bedrohte, rechts neben Pope eingesetzt, mit diesem zusammen die wichtige Virginia Central Railroad (vgl. Freeman, Lee's Lieutenants, a.a.O., vol. 2, S. 1). Pope gab den Befehl, King's Cavalry zur Zerstörung der Virginia Central Railroad zwischen Richmond und dem Shenandoah Valley (vgl. Stackpole: From Cedar Mountain, a.a.O., S. 28).

 

Er ordnete am 22.7.1862 eine Cavalry Aufklärung unter Col. Judson H. *Kilpatrick gegen *Carmel Church an. Col Judson H. *Kil­patrick unternimmt am 22./23.7.1862 mit Abteilungen seines 2nd New York Cavalry Regiments (Harris Light Cavalry), der 3rd In­diana Cavalry und der 14th Brooklyn Cavalry (Division BrigGen Rufus King, McDowell's Corps, Pope's Army of Virginia) von Fre­dericksburg (vgl. Stackpole: From Cedar Mountain, a.a.O., S. 28) aus einen Vorstoß gegen ein Camp der CS-Truppen, welches bei Carmel Church vermutet wurde; dort legt er einen Hinterhalt, verfolgt angreifende Rebellen bis kurz vor Hanover Junction, wo er das CS-Camp zerstört und wird schließlich von überlegenen Kräften unter Jeb Stuart vertrieben (vgl. Kilpatrick's Report: OR 12 [2} S. 102-103; King's Report: OR 12 [2] S. 102; Mosocco: Chronological Tracking of the Civil War, a.a.O., S. 77).

 

Vom 5.-8.8.1862 führte die Division King mehrere Expeditions nach Frederick's Hall Station, Va. und Spotsylvania Court House, Va, durch (vgl. King's Report, OR 12 [2] S. 121-22). Die Expedition nach Frederick's Hall Court House wurde von der Brigade Gibbon durchgeführt (vgl. King's Report, OR 12 [2] S. 122; Gibbon's Report OR 12 [2] S. 122-23).

 

Während des Battle of Brawner's Farm am 29.8.1862 war King schwer krank; er hatte am 23.8.1862 einen epileptischen Anfall erlit­ten und war dienstunfähig, blieb jedoch auf eigenen Wunsch im Kommando, mußte allerdings in einer Ambulanz gefahren und vom Divisionsarzt betreut werden. Dadurch war sein dienstältester Brigadekommandeur BrigGen John Hatch nicht im Stande die Division zu kommandieren, die infolge von King's Gesundheitszustand praktisch führerlos war (vgl. Gaff: Brave Men's Tears, a.a.O., S. 33).

 

King's Division bestand aus vier Brigaden:

- Brigade John Hatch

- Brigade Abner Doubleday

- Brigade Marsena R. Patrick

- Brigade John Gibbon

 

Kurz nach 2nd Bull Run wurde der als unpopulär bezeichnete General abgelöst (vgl. Gramm, Kent: „They must be made on Iron“. The Ascent of South Mountain; in: Nolan/Vipond: Giants in their Black Hats. Essays on the Iron Brigade, a.a.O, S. 14). King wird als unpopulär geschildert (Gramm; in: Nolan / Vipond, a.a.O, S. 14).

 

Documents/Literature::

- Theron W. Haight: "King's Division: Fredericksburg to Manassas," War Papers, Wisconsin Commandery, Military Order of the Loy­al Legion of the United States [Milwaukee: Burdick, Armitage and Allen, 1896, Vol. II, S. 350/51)

 

 

King, William:

CS-Captain; King's Company, Virginia Light Artillery (Saltville Artillery) (vgl. National Park Soldiers M382 Roll 32)

 

 

King, William S.:

US-Surgeon; 1862 Medical Director des V. Army Corps Banks; eingesetzt im Shenandoah Valley (vgl. OR 12 (I) 344-345: King's Re­port über das Battle von Kernstown am 23.3.1862).

 

 

Kinnear, John Ritchey:

US-Sergeant; Co. A, 86th Regiment Illinois Infantry (vgl. National Park Soldiers M539 Roll 49).

 

Documents/Literature::

- **Kinnear, John R.: History of the Eighty-sixth Regiment Illinois Infantry During Its Term of Service (Chicago: Tribune Company's Book and Job Printing Office, 1866)

 

 

Kinzer, William T.:

CS-Sergeant;: Co. L, 4th Regiment Virginia Infantry (vgl. National Park Soldiers M382 Roll 32).

 

Documents/Literature::

- **Kinzer Diary: Typescript of unpublished Diary of William T. Kinzer, a member of the 4th Virginia Infantry, primarily covering 1862. West Virginia and Regional Collection. West Virginia University Libraries, Morgantown, West Virginia

 

 

Kirby, Isaac M.:

US-Col; 101st Ohio Infantry

 

1864 während Sherman’s Atlanta Campaign gehörte die 101st Ohio Infantry zum IV. Corps MajGen Oliver Otis *Howard (vgl. B & L vol. IV, S. 284), 1st Division MajGen David S. Stanley, 1st Brigade BrigGen Charles Cruft in MajGen George H. Thomas Army of the Cumberland. Das Regiment nahm am 8.5.1864 teil an der bewaffneten Aufklärung gegen Buzzard Roost Gap nördlich Dalton entlang der Strecke der Western & Atlantic Railroad (vgl. Castel: Decision in the West, a.a.O., S. 147)

 

Documents/Literature::

- Day, L. W.: Story of the One Hundred and First Ohio Infantry (Cleveland: W. M. Bayne Printing Co., 1894)

- Read, Ira: "The Campaign from Chattanooga to Atlanta as Seen by a Federal Soldier," ed. Richard B. Harwell, Georgia Historical Quarterly 25 (1941)

 

 

Kirby, Thomas B.:

US-Lt; Co. F, 20th Regiment Connecticut Infantry (vgl. National Park Service M535 Roll 9). On 27.1.1863 Lt Kirby was detailed as Adjutant of the Artillery Brigade of the 1st Div., 12th Corps Slocum, Army of the Potomac (vgl. Storrs: 20tr Connecticut Infantry, a.a.O., p. 43).

 

 

Kircher, Henry A.:

US-+++; 36th Illinois Infantry während der Pea Ridge Campaign (vgl. Shea / Hess: Pea Ridge, a.a.O., S. 74 mit S. 353 Anm. 34; ).

 

 

Kircher, Henry A.:

US-Sergeant; Co. A, 9th Regiment Illinois Infantry (3 months, 1861) (vgl. National Park Soldiers M539 Roll 49); später US-Captain; Co. ACK, 12th Regiment Missouri Infantry (vgl. National Park Soldiers M390 Roll 26).

 

Kircher was born in 1841, one often children of Joseph and Augusta Kircher, German natives who migrated to western Illinois in the 1830s. Kircher grew up in a closely knit family and attended Oakfield Academy, near St. Louis, one of the first German-American schools west of the Mississippi. He became a machinist by trade and was working in his hometown when the first shock waves of Sumter reached Illinois. Kircher and several of his German friends first joined the 9th Illinois as three-months recruits, but he quickly became disillusioned by the political infighting that he visualized would be a barrier to his advancement in the regiment. Because of this disillusionment and the antagonism that developed between the Germans and Americans, he and his Belleville neighbors decided to cross the Mississippi and join the newly formed 12th Missouri, where in time 84 percent of the regiment would be made up of German-Americans. Kircher, who eventually rose to the rank of captain, and the men of the 12th Missouri took part in several im­portant campaigns during their three years service, including Pea Ridge, Chickasaw Bluffs, the siege of Vicksburg, and finally Look­out Mountain. Kircher's letters, most of them written to his mother, end abruptly in November, 1863, following the battle of Ring­gold, Georgia, where he received wounds that caused him to lose both an arm and a leg. Following the war Kircher returned home a hero and despite his handicap became one of Belleville's leading citizens in business and politics, eventually serving two terms as mayor. Kircher was married in 1880 to Bertha Engelmann and had three children. He died on May 1, 1908 (vgl. Indiana Magazine of History, Indiana Historical Society, Indianapolis, by Thomas K. Krasean)

 

Captain Henry A. Kircher und sein Andel und sein Schwager Captain Henry A. *Kircher waren zunächst Soldiers, Co. A, 9th Regiment Illinois Infantry (3 months, 1861) (vgl. National Park Soldiers M539 Roll 2), Kircher als Sergeant, Andel als Corporal.

 

Documents/Literature::

- Engelmann / Kircher Collection, Illinois State Historical Library Springfield

- Hess, Earl J.: “A German in the Yankee Fatherland: The Civil War Letters of Henry A. Kircher (Kent, Ohio: Kent University Press, 1983)

- Engelmann / Kircher Collection, Illinois State Historical Library Springfield

 

 

Kirk, Charles H.:

US-+++; 15th Pennsylvania Cavalry

 

Documents/Literature::

- Kirk, Charles H.: History of the Fifteenth Pennsylvania Cavalry which was recruited and known as the Anderson Cavalry in the Re­bellion of1861-1865 (Philadelphia 1906); 1st Edition; 787 pp; Rosters; Illustrations; Map in Rear Pocket; Photos. This unit saw ac­tion at Antietam, Stone River, Nashville, Chickamauga, Missionary Ridge, and other battles and skirmishes in Alabama, Georgia, Ten­nessee and North Carolina

 

 

Kirkland, Richard R.:

CS-First Sergeant; Co. E&G, 2nd Regiment South Carolina Infantry (vgl. National Park Soldiers M381 Roll 18); nach dem Battle of Gettysburg some of the wounded Members of the US-Irish Brigade received succor from Sergeant Richard Kirkland of the 2nd South Carolina, who crawled out between the lines on the afternoon of 14.12.1862, with water for those Yankees who still survived (vgl. Seagrave: History of the Irish Brigade, a.a.O., Vorsatz).

 

 

Kirkland, William W.:

CS-BrigGen; zunächst Col. 21st North Carolina Infantry; das Regiment gehörte 1862 zu Isaac *Trimble's Brigade Division Ewell (vgl. Pfanz: Ewell, a.a.O., S. 171). Das Regiment stand Anfang Mai 1862 bei *Fisher's Gap in den Blue Ridge Mountain (vgl. Pfanz: Ewell, a.a.O., S. 171).

 

Kirkland übernahm *Pettigrew's Brigade nach dessen Tod am 17.7.1863 aufgrund schwerster Verwundung im Battle von Falling Wa­ters am 14.7.1863 (vgl. Wilson: Pettigrew, a.a.O., S. 77). Kirkland was a good battlefield commander but not a inspirational leader. He was wounded twice while commanding Pettigrew's brigade and thus spent months reconvalescing. His influence on the character of the unit was minimal (vgl. Hess: Lee's Tar Heels, a.a.O., S. xvi).

 

 

Kirkpatrick, James J.:

CS-Sergeant, Co. C, 16th Mississippi Infantry Regiment (vgl. National Park Soldiers M232 Rill12; vgl. Tanner: Stonewall in the Val­ley, a.a.O., S. 575).

 

Documents/Literature::

- Kirkpatrick, James J.: Diary. Unpublished diary edited and annotated in "The Civil War Diary of James J. Kirkpatrick, 16th Missis­sippi Infantry, CSA," a thesis by Eugene Matthew Ott, Jr., Texas A&M University, 1984

 

 

Kirwan, Thomas:

US-Pvt; 17th Massachusetts Infantry

 

Documents/Literature::

- Kirwan, Thomas (Pvt, 17th Mass Vols): Memorial History of the Seventeenth Regiment Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry in the Ci­vil War from 1861-1865 (Salem, 1911, 1st Edition)

 

 

Kitchen, Thomas:

CS-Corporal, Co. I, 8th Regiment Georgia Infantry (State Guards) (vgl. National Park Soldiers M226 Roll 35).

 

Photo:

Pvt Thomas Kitchen (Library of Congress,  LC-B8184-10604)

 

 

Klaeden, Adolph W. (D):

CS-1stLt; Col. E, 16th Regiment Texas Infantry (Flournoy's) (vgl. National Park Soldiers M227 Roll 20); dort als A. E. Klaeden auf­geführt; dagegen bei Kamphoefner/Helbich: German in the Civil War, a.a.O., S. 470n35 als „Adolph (A. W.) Klaeden.

 

In 1860 Adolph Klaeden (A. W.) Klaeden, born in Havelberg, was working as a clerk and became first lieutenant in Col. E, 16th Re­giment Texas Infantry (Flournoy's; his sister was married to Louis *Lehmann's brother Adolph (vgl. Kamphoefner/Helbich: German in the Civil War, a.a.O., S. 470n35).

 

Im Battle of Masura/Louisiana (Red River Campaign) am 15.5.1864 geriet Klaeden bei Marks­ville in Kriegsgefangenschaft und wurde in einem Gefange­nenlager in New Orleans inhaftiert (vgl. Brief Lehmann an „Beloved Friederieke'“ vom 15.6.1864, abgedruckt bei Kamphoefner/Hel­bich: German in the Civil War, a.a.O., S. 469-470: „The officers, including A. Klaeden, are in a special house in the town“).

 

 

Klein, Johann August „Augustus“:

US-Lt (www.findagrave.com); Sergeant, Co. A, 6th Regiment Wisconsin Infantry (Iron Brigade); Klein trat als Pvt in das Regiment ein; originally filed under Augustus Kleine (vgl. National Park Soldiers M559 Roll 16).

 

Co E 6th Wisconsin Infantry (vgl. Martin: Gettysburg, a.a.O., S. 126)

 

„August Klein was born in Hamburg, Germany, April 10, 1841 and came to America at an early age and settled in Wisconsin. On March 21, 1865, he was married to Miss Lucretia Birum at Baraboo, Wis., and to them were born nine children, five of whom survi­ve him, who were a comfort and a joy to their father in his declining years. They are Misses Belle, Lottie, Amy, and Willie and Carl Klein and Mrs. George Drew. He leaves three brothers and one sister, Chris and Charley Klein of Rock Valley, and Adolph Klein of Lester and Mrs. J. Hirschinger of this place.

Mr. Klein was an old soldier and enlisted in Co. A 6th, Wisconsin infantry on August 28, 1861, and was immediately sent to the front where he had seen some hard fighting. He took part in the engagements at South Mountain, Antietam, Fredericksburg, Gettysburg, The Wilderness and Petersburg. At the last named battle he received a terrible wound after 3 years and 10 months service in the de­fense of this country. He went in as first sergeant and at the close of the war the governor of Wisconsin breveted him first lieutenant for his conspicious bravery on the field of battle. At the time of his death he was commander of the G.A.R. organization of this place.

In June 1869 August Klein took up a homestead in Lyon County and the year following moved with his family onto the same. Seven years ago Mr. Klein entered into partnership with M.B. Smith in the hardware business, but sold out after a short time. Three years ago together with Robt. Roundtree he purchased the Rock Valley Mills and a year later incorporated under the name of the Rock Val­ley Mill Company of which he is president and the heaviest stockholder. He was a holder of stock in The Register until quite recent­ly“ (zitiert bei www.findagrave.com)

10.5.1841 Hamburg/Germany - † 24.1.1895 Sioux Falls / South Dacota während eines Besuchs bei seinem Schwager C. A. Birum; beerd. Valley View Cemetery, Rock Valley/Sioux County/Iowa; °° Lucretia Jane Birum Klein (1844-1918) (www.findagrave.com).

 

Photo:

US-Sergeant Johann August „Augustus“ Klein (www.findagrave.com).

 

Documents/Literature::

- Klein, Augustus: War Letter (über die Ereignisse am 1.7.1863 bei Gettysburg am Bloody *Railroad Cut; Privately owned (zitiert nach Nolan: Iron Brigade, a.a.O., S. 386)

 

 

Klement, Frank L.:

Historiker; 1908-1994. After teaching school district in northeastern Wisconsin around the state he received his PhD (Doctor of Phi­losophy) in History from the University of Wisconsin in 1946. He taught briefly at Lake Forest College and at Eau Claire State Tea­chers College and joined the history department at Marquette University in 1948. Before his retirement twenty-seven years later with the rank of Professor Emeritus, Clement served as department chair from 1956-1958 and received the Award for Teaching Excel­lence in 1965. He also served as President Phi Alpha Theta, the international Honor Society for History (1973-1974), as President of the Lincoln Fellowship of Wisconsin (1960), in many official capacities for the Civil War Round Table of Milwauckee/Wisconsin and on numerous editorial boards and national committees (vgl. Einleitung zu Rable: News from Fredericksburg, a.a.O., Frontispiz).

 

"Klement, der führende Historiker der *Cop­perheads, hält die meisten Beweise für deren heimliche Komplizenschaft mit den Rebel­len für ein Gespinst aus 'Gerüchten, Vermu­tungen und freie Erfindung', das von den Republikanern aus politischen Gründen in die Welt gesetzt worden sei. Aber auch Klement räumt ein, daß mehrere Friedensdemokraten 1864 von Agenten der Konföderation Geld und Waffen bekommen haben" (vgl. McPherson: Für die Freiheit, S. 943 Anm. 25).

 

Documents/Literature::

- **Klement, Frank L.: The Limits of Dissent: Clement L. Vallandigham and the Civil War (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1970)

- **Klement, Frank L.: The Copperheads of the Middle West (Chicago: Chicago University of Chicago Press, 1960)

- **Klement, Frank L.: Dark Lanterns. Secret Political Societies, Conspiracies, and Treason Trials in the Civil War, Baton Rouge, 1984 (McPherson: Für die Freiheit, S. 943 Anm. 25 beurteilt Klements Auffassung wie folgt: "Klement, der führende Historiker der *Cop­perheads, hält die meisten Beweise für deren heimliche Komplizenschaft mit den Rebellen für ein Gespinst aus 'Gerüchten, Vermu­tungen und freie Erfindung', das von den Republikanern aus politischen Gründen in die Welt gesetzt worden sei. Aber auch Klement räumt ein, daß mehrere Friedensdemokraten 1864 von Agenten der Konföderation Geld und Waffen bekommen haben")

 

 

Klepser, Andrew J.:

US-Captain; zunächst Second Lieutenant, Co. A, 72nd Indiana Infantry (vgl. National Park Soldiers M540 Roll 41); Klepser wurde am 28.7.1862 zum Second Lieutenant, Co. A, 72nd Indiana Infantry gewählt (vgl. Magee: Seventy-Second Indiana, a.a.O., S. 9).

 

 

Knap, Joseph M.:

US-Major; Captain and Batteriechef von Knap's Independent Battery E, Pennsylvania Light Artillery (vgl. National Park Soldiers M554 Roll 16). This unit fought at Manassas, Cedar Mountain, Antietam, Gettysburg, Chancellorsville, The Atlanta Campaigns and throughout the Carolinas.

 

Im Sommer 1861 he joined Co. L, 28th Regiment Pennsylvania Infantry as a lieutenant. The following october he was promoted to captain and was placed in command of the newly formed Battery E, which was composed largely of excess soldiers from the over­strengthened 28th Pennsylvania Infantry (vgl. Frassanito: Antietam Photographic Legacy, a.a.O., S. 98).

 

Organizer and First Commanding officer of Independent Battery "E" (Civil War-Union Army-Light Artillery). June 1861 entered Union Army as 1st Lieut with Company L. 28th Pennsylvania Regt. Discharged 1 November 1861 to accept Captaincy of Indepen­dent Battery E, Pa. Artillery. October 1861 promoted to Captain in Battery of Light Artillery in Geary's Bde. (Bates)
Participation in Major Battles: Cedar Mountain, Antietam, Chancellorsville, Rappahanock, Sulpher Springs, South Mountain. Resi­gned from Battery May 16,1863. In June 1864 promoted to Major, Organized a Battalion of Artillery / Penn Reserve, until Sept 1864. Commanded three forts in the Defenses of Washington DC and assisted in the repulse of Gen. Early. Placed in charge of the Fort Pitt Foundry at Pittsburg for 3 years (vgl. www.findagrave.com).

 

30.12.1837 Brownville, Jefferson County/New York - † 21.6.1920; beerd. Catskill Village Cemetery, Catskill Greene County/New York; °° 1.9.1864 in Catskill/NY mit Sophia Hale Day Knap (vgl. www.findagrave.com).

 

Photo:

- Joseph M. Knap (vgl. www.findagrave.com).

- Frassanito: Antietam Photographic Legacy, a.a.O., S. 97: Joseph M. Knap in 'napoleonischer Haltung'

- Frassanito: Antietam Photographic Legacy, a.a.O., S. 94: Knap's Battery E, Pennsylvania Light Artillery bei Antietam (vermutlich am 19.9.1862)

 

 

Documents/Literature::

- Brady, James P. Brady: Hurrah for the Artillery (Knap's Independent Battery E, Pennsylvania Light Artillery) (Thomas Publications, Gettysburg). Compiled from letters, Journals and diaries of key battery members; well illustrated narrative allows reader to experi­ence battles, and marches; 464 pp; Detailed Maps, Photos, Rosters

 

 

Knapp, John:

30.6.1816 - † 11.11.1888; beerd. St Louis Cavalry Cemetary and Mausoleum, St. Louis(vgl. http://www.findagrave.com/, Abruf vom 7.6.2015).; US-Col 1st Missouri Volunteer Militia, und später der 8th und 11th Missouri Militia Cavalry (vgl. Banasik, Michel E. (ed.): Missouri Brothers in Gray. The Reminiscenses and Letters of William J. Bull and John P. Bull, Iowa City 1998, S. 10 Anm. 21).

 

Knapp war Herausgeber des unionsfreundlichen St. Louis Missouri Republican und Col 1st Missouri Volunteer Militia. 1861 bei Camp Jackson gefangengenommen, wurde er im Spätjahr 1861 ausgetauscht noch vor dem Allgemeinen Austausch vom Oktober 1861, weshalb er auch nicht in den Listen über den allgemeinen Austausch aufgeführt ist. Knapp schloß sich nun der Sache der Uni­on an und kommandierte die 8th und 11th Missouri Militia Cavalry. Knapp diente außerdem als Volunteer Aid während Governor Price's 1864 Missouri Raid (vgl. Banasik, Michel E. (ed.): Missouri Brothers in Gray. The Reminiscenses and Letters of William J. Bull and John P. Bull, Iowa City 1998, S. 10 Anm. 21; vgl. OR 34, pt. 4, 87; OR 41 pt. 1; OR, Series 2, vol. 1, 132, 553-557).).

 

Knapp's military service began in 1840 when he enlisted as a private in a St. Louis militia company. During the Mexican War, he ser­ved as captain, Company C, 1st Missouri Volunteers. In the fall of 1860 he commanded the 1st Regiment of Missouri militia as part of the Southwest Missouri militia as part of the Southwest Expedition to the Kansas border. He also led his regiment at Camp Jack­son in May 1861 when the command was captured by Federal forces under General Lyon. After Camp Jackson, Knapp's service was the Union cause. He was appointed by Governor Gamble to command the 8th Enrolled Missouri Militia & later by Governor Hall to lead the 13th Provisional Regiment. He supervised a brigade of Missouri Union militia in the pursuit of General Price during his Misso­uri raid in 1864 (vgl. http://www.findagrave.com/, Abruf vom 7.6.2015).

 

°° mit Virginia Wright Knapp (9.2.1824 St. Louis/MO - † 16.8.1906 Washington County, Rhode Island; Tochter von Joseph Wright und Cynthia Belcher Wright) (vgl. http://www.findagrave.com/, Abruf vom 7.6.2015).

 

 

Knight, Charles W.:

CS-LtCol; zunächst First Leutentant; Co. F, 17th Regiment North Carolina Infantry (vgl. National Park Soldiers M230 Roll 22); Teil­nahme am Battle von Fort Clark und Fort Hatteras auf den North Carolina Inlets am 28.8.1862; bei der Beschießung von Fort Hat­teras erlitt Lieutenant Knight eine schwere Verwundung am Arm und wurde mit einem Steamer über den Sound zur ärztlichen Be­handlung transportiert (vgl. Bericht von E. J. Wood [ed], Year Book Pasquotank Historical Society, 2: 110-11; abgedruckt bei (vgl. Yearns/Harrett: North Carolina Civil War Documentary, a.a.O., S. 30). Später Captain und dann LtCol, Co. F, 31st Regiment North Carolina Infantry (vgl. National Park Soldiers M230 Roll 22).

 

Als Captain, Co. F, 31st Regiment North Carolina Infantry geriet Charles W. Knight bei Roanoke Island in Kriegsgefangenschaft und wurde später ausgetauscht. He was promoted LtCol in June 1863. Knight survived the war and was paroled in April 1865 (vgl. Munson, E. B. ([ed.]: confederate Incognito: The Civil War Reports of „Long Grabs“ a.k.a. Murdoch John McSween, 26th and 35th North Carolina Infantry, a.a.O., S. 250, Anm. 49)

 

Urkunden/Documents/Literature::

- Report of Colonel Charles W. Knight, O.R. Ser. I, Vol. 28, Pt. 1, 417-418 (Battle of Wilmington/NC Febr. 1865) und O.R. Series 1, XXVIII, part 1, 418-419, 524 (Attack on Battery Wagner, Morris Island / SC am 18.7.1863)

 

 

Knight, Joseph F.:

US-Pvt; Co. H, 32nd Regiment Maine Infantry (vgl. National Park Soldiers M543 Roll 12)

 

Urkunden/Documents/Literature::

- Knight, Joseph F.: Letter, 25 July 1864, signed "Frank" from Joseph F. Knight of Company H, 32nd Maine Infantry, to his sister thanking her for the money she has sent him, noting that Colonel Mark Fernald Wentworth (1820-1897) had joined the regiment, and commenting on camp life. Also includes a postscript, written after 30 July 1864, by Sergeant Edward R. Harmon informing the recipient that her brother is missing and presumed captured by the Confederate army during the battle of the Crater at Petersburg, Virginia (vgl. Library of Virginia, Richmond/VA, Archives and Manuscripts Room, Manuscript 38836)

 

 

Knipe, Joseph Farmer:

US-BrigGen; 1823-1901 aus Pennsylvania; enlisted man im Mexican War, später erfolgreicher Kaufmann; 31.10.1861 Col. 46th Pennsylvania Infantry, ++++Battle of Cedar Mountain, dort verwundet (vgl. Battles and Leaders Vol. II., S. 496); in der Gettysburg Campaign übernahm Knipe die aussichtslose Aufgabe mit 1000 Mann Miliz den Vormarsch Lee's auf Chambersburg zu verzögern (vgl. Chambersburg: "Southern Revenge", a.a.O., S. 76).

 

Photo:

Chambersburg: "Southern Revenge", a.a.O., S. 76

 

 

Knobelsdorff, Charles:

US-Col, 44th Illinois Infantry; im Frühjahr 1862 gehörte das Regiment zur 1st Brigade Col Peter J. Osterhaus in 1st Division Peter J. Osterhaus in Samuel Ryan Curtis' Army of the South West. Besetzung von Springfield Missouri am 13. Januar 1862, Battle of Pea Ridge (vgl. Shea / Hess, Pea Ridge, a.a.O., S. 331).

 

 

Knox, Andrew:

US-2ndLt; Co. B,I&M, 1st Regiment Connecticut Heavy Artillery (vgl. National Park Soldiers M535 Roll 9).

 

Urkunden/Documents/Literature::

- Know, Andrew: Letter, 29 January 1865, from Andrew Knox (b. 1835) of the 1st Connecticut Heavy Artillery Regiment, stationed at Battery #20 near Petersburg, Virginia, to his wife Sarah Knox (b. ca. 1842) in Danbury, Connecticut, telling her how much he loves and misses her and how he hopes to see her soon. Knox also informs her of some of the military activity in front of his regiment. Includes a map of Battery #20 (vgl. Library of Viginia, Richmond/VA, Archives and Manuscripts Room, Manuscript 41187)

 

 

Knox, Thomas W.:

US-Journalist; Reporter des New York Herald: Knox nahm teil am Gefecht in Booneville / Missouri am 17.6.1861 (vgl. Andrews: The North reports the Civil War, a.a.O., S. 120) und am Battle of Wilson's Creek am 10.8.1861 (vgl. Andrews: The North reports the Civil War, a.a.O., S. 121-122)

 

Documents/Literature::

- Knox, T. W.: Camp-Fire and Cotton Field (Philadelphia and Cincinnati, 1865)

 

 

Koch, Heinrich:

US-+++; 43rd Illinois Infantry; Koch stammte aus Rockenhausen Kukatzki, Bernhard: "Pfälzer im Amerikanischen Bürgerkrieg", Teil II, in: Pfälzisch-Rheinische Familienkunde 2003, Heft 5, S. 298).

 

 

Koenig, Paul:

US-Captain; Co. E, 68th New York Infantry (vgl. Annual Report of the Adjutant General of the State of New York: Roster 68th New York Infantry; Anm. nicht genannt bei National Park Soldiers).

 

Age, 25 years. Enrolled at New York city, to serve three years, and mustered in as first sergeant, Co. E, August 10, 1801; as second lieutenant, Co. G, August 11, 1861; as first lieutenant, January 17, 1862; as captain, Co. D, September 22, 1862; wounded in action, August 31, 1863, at White Sulphur Springs, Ya.; died of bis wounds, September 26, 1863; prior service in English army. Commissio­ned second lieutenant, December 30, 1861, with rank from August 10, 1861; original; first lieutenant, May 23, 1802, with rank from January 17, 1862, vice M. P. Yonder Holle, promoted; captain, September 30, 1862, with rank from September 22, 1862, vice Carl Vogel, promoted (vgl. Annual Report of the Adjutant General of the State of New York: Roster 68th New York Infantry).

 

Anm.: Alexander Dupré erwähnt an seinem Brief an „Liebe Eltern“ vom 15.8.1861 einen „First Lieutenant von König“ vom 68th Re­giment New York Infantry (vgl. Kamphoefner/Helbich: Germans in the Civil War: The Letters They Wrote Home, a.a.O., S. 47). Hierbei könnte es sich um Paul Koenig handeln, der allerdings im August 1861 Second Lt war. Im Regiment gab es noch einen Cap­tain Robert Koenig, der im August 1861 als Captain in das Regiment eintrat). Dupré schreibt zu diesem: „He claims to have been an officer, but there is no trace of it, nothing but connections, all humbug […]“.Emile Dupré erwähnt in seinem Brief 8.5.1862 an „Dear Parents“: V. König is a major and his brother Paul will be a captain soon“ (vgl. Kamphoefner/Helbich: Germans in the Civil War: The Letters They Wrote Home, a.a.O., S. 53).

 

 

Koerner, Gustave:

US-Politiker; 1809-1896; stammt aus Deutschland; der bedeutendste Führer der Deutschen im St. Clair County / Illinois (gegenüber von St. Louis). Koerner war Lieutenant Governor von Illinois von 1853-1857; ursprünglich Democrat, er wechselte während seiner Amtszeit zur Republican Party (vgl. Morrison: "History of the 9th Regiment Illinois Volunteer Infantry", a.a.O., S. ix; Cole: The Era of the Civil War, a.a.O., S. 25).

 

Documents/Literature::

- Koerner, Gustave: Memoirs of Gustave Koerner, 1809-1896. Life sketches written at the suggestion of his children. Edited by Tho­mas J. McCormack, 2 volumes (Cedar Rapids, Iowa, 1909)

- McCormack, Thomas J. (ed): Memoirs of Gustave Koerner (Cedar Rapis: Torch Press, 1909)

 

 

Koltes, John A.:

US-Col; Regimentskomandeur 73rd Regiment Pennsylvania Infantry (vgl. National Park Soldiers M554 Roll 16).

 

Born in Prussia in 1823; fled to US after the failed revolutions of 1848; Mexican War veteran, then joined US Marines; outspoken re­presentative of immigrants in the US; raised the 73d NYSV; KIA Aug. 30, 1862 at Gainesville, VA, never having received the briga­dier general's commission that was on its way to him. He was buried at Glenwood Cemetery in Philadelphia and reinterment was in Glenwood Memorial Gardens Cemetery. September 5. Funeral of Col. John A. Koltes. soldier, born in Rhenish Prussia in 1823; died near Gainesville, Virginia, 30 August, 1862 (2nd Bull Run). He came to this country in 1846, and served throughout the Mexican war as orderly sergeant. After its close he became an officer of the marine corps, and was subsequently employed in the United States mint in Philadelphia. At the opening of the civil war he raised and commanded a regiment of Germans. He was killed at the battle of Gainesville, Virginia. He had been acting brigadier general in General Adolph Von Steinwehr's division for four months, and his fri­ends who had secured his promotion to this rank were carrying his commission, when they met his body as it was borne from the battle field (vgl. www.findagrave.com).

 

Photo:

Col John A. Koltes (vgl. www.findagrave.com)

 

 

Kop, Peter:

US-Captain, Co. F, 27th Indiana Infantry. Am 12.9.1862 rückte das Regiment in das nach Räumung der CS-Truppen während Lee's Maryland Campaign frei gewordene *Frederick City / Maryland ein. Zwei seiner Soldaten fanden hierbei Lee's Gesamtbefehl Nr. 191 vom 9.9.1862 für die Maryland Campaign (vgl. Sears: Landscape Turned Red, a.a.O., S. 112; *Colgrove, Silas: The Finding of Lee's Lost Order; Battles & Leaders II 603; *Bloss, John M.: "Antietam and the Lost Order," War Talks in Kansas, Kansas Commandery of the Military Order of the Loyal Legion, I, S. 84-88; Datzman, Richard Carroll: "Who found Lee's Lost Order?" [1973]).

 

 

Kountz, William J.:

US-Navy-Captain, verantwortlich für den Schiffstransport bei Angriff auf Forts Donelson and Henry. Kountz war äußerst unbeliebt, weshalb es Petitionen der ihm unterstellten Kapitäne bei U.S. Grant gab, Kountz abzulösen. Grant war gezwungen, um seine An­griffsvorbereitungen zu machen, sein Arbeitszimmer in den Wohnraum seiner Frau in Cairo zu verlegen (vgl. Grant, Julia Dent: Me­moirs, a.a.O., S. 96). Gen. Rawlins, Grant's Stabschef in Cairo warf den immer wieder intervenierenden Kountz aus dem Stabsgebäu­de heraus (a.a.O., S. 96). Kountz war hierüber sehr verärgert und verbreitete aus Rache die Behauptung, Grant und sein Stab sei be­trunken. Col. *Hillyer ließ Kountz daraufhin unter Arrest stellen, Grant ordnete jedoch die sofortige Freilassung an (a.a.O., S. 96). Am 14.1.1862 notiert U.S. Grant, er habe (erneut?) die Festnahme von Kountz befohlen, da sich dieser ungehorsam und streitsüchtig erwiesen habe. Hillyer nahm aufgrund dieses Befehls Kountz unter Arrest bis zu diesen freiwilligem Rücktritt im April 1862. Grant erhob keine förmliche Anklage gegen Kountz, dieser allerdings erhob ernste Vorwürfe gegen Grant wegen angeblicher Trunkenheit (a.a.O., S. 115 Anm. 20 m.w.N.).

 

 

Kraesig, Frank:

CS-Pvt; Co. K, 14th Regiment Louisiana Infantry (vgl. National Park Soldiers M378 Roll 16); original filed under 'Kraeszick'

 

 

Kress, John A.:

US-LtCol, Co. F&S, 94th Regiment New York Infantry (vgl. National Park Soldiers M551 Roll 79); später Stabsoffizier in Gen. Wadsworth Division in Gettysburg (vgl. Herdegen: The Men Stood like Iron, a.a.O., S. 5 und Anm. 8 S. 219; Martin: Gettysburg, a.a.O., S. 73; Gaff: On Many a Bloody Field: Four Years in the Iron Briga­de, a.a.O., S. 256).

 

Am Morgen des 1.7.1863 LtCol John Kress, a staff officer from the 1st Division, I Corps rode up to Gen. Buford's headquarters. A he sent his own officers into action, Buford asked Kress pointedly (spitz), „What are you doing here, sir?“ When Kress explained that he had been sent ahead to locate some shoes for his division, Buford told him abruptedly that he batter get back to his outfit immediate­ly. „Why, what's the matter, General?“. Before Buford could answer, the sound of a single canon sounded to the west. Mounting his horse, Buford said: „That's the matter“ (vgl. Newton: McPherson's Ridge, a.a.O., S. 22).

 

John Alexander Kress of Pennsylvania; Appointed from New York, Cadet, West Point, 1 July 1858 to 18 October 1861; Major, 94th New York Infantry, 10 July 1862, Lieutenant Colonel, 1 November 1862; Resigned 11 December 1863; Second Lieutenant of Ord­nance, 24 November 1863, First Lieutenant, 16 July 1864, Captain, 23 June 1874, Major, 3 January 1887, Lieutenant Colonel, Chief Ordnance Officer of US. Volunteers, 12 May 1899, Lieutenant Colonel, Ordnance, 5 March 1900, Breveted Captain, 2 April 1865 for gallant and meritorious service during the Siege of Richmond and Petersburg, Virginia, and Major, 3 April 1865 for meritorious and distinguished service as Chief of Ordnance of the 25 Army Corps, Breveted Major 27 February 1890 for gallant service in action against Indians on the Columbia River, Oregon, 8 July 1878. Lieutenant Colonel March 5, 1900; Colonel, August 17, 1903; and Bri­gadier General, August 16, 1903. General Kress was placed on the retired list August 17, 1903, with over 40 years of service. For a number of years he was in charge of Jefferson Barracks. Kress continued to make his home in St. Louis after retirement. During his early retirement Kress served as Grand Marshall of the World's Fair in 1904. His son remembered his father rode a white horse at the head of the parade (vgl. http://www.arlingtoncemetery.net/jakress.htm).

 

John Alexander Kress was born November 04, 1839 on a farm in north-central Pennsylvania. In 1847 he accompanied his parents westward to Indiana Territory. General Kress died July 3, 1933, at Walter Reed Army Hospital in Washington, DC, and was buried at Arlington National Cemetery (vgl. http://www.arlingtoncemetery.net/jakress.htm).

 

Photo:

BrigGen John A. Kress (www.findagrave.com)

 

Documents/Literature::

- **Kress, John A.: "At Gettysburg," Missouri Republican, St. Louis, December 4, 1886

 

 

Kühner, Karl Friedrich (Keener, Charles F.):

US-Pvt, Co. L, 6th Regiment Ohio Light Cavalry (vgl. National Park Soldiers M552 Roll 27). Kühner enlisted am 16.10.1861 (vgl. Kamphoefner, Walter and Helbich, Wolfgang (eds.): Germans in the Civil War: The Letters They Wrote Home, a.a.O., S. 293 n. 5).

 

Kühner stammte aus Baden und war 1851 zusammen mit seinem 16 Jahre alten Bruder Ludwig Wilhelm *Kühner aus Unters­chefflenz/Baden in die USA nach Albany/NY eingewandert. Mitte der 1850er Jahre zogen die Brüder Kühner nach Ohio, wobei Lud­wig Kühner sich in Thompson/Ohio niederließ, während sein Bruder Karl Friedrich Kühner nach Trumbull/Ohio zog (vgl. Kampho­efner, Walter and Helbich, Wolfgang (eds.): Germans in the Civil War: The Letters They Wrote Home, a.a.O., S. 292).

 

 

Kühner, Ludwig Wilhelm (Keener, Louis W.):

US-Corporal, 15th Independent Battery, Ohio Light Artillery (vgl. National Park Soldiers M552 Roll 57). He enlisted on 3.11.1861 (vgl. Kamphoefner, Walter and Helbich, Wolfgang (eds.): Germans in the Civil War: The Letters They Wrote Home, a.a.O., S. 293 n. 5); er musterte nach Ablauf des 3-years-service 10.11.1864 aus (vgl. Kamphoefner, Walter and Helbich, Wolfgang (eds.): Germans in the Civil War: The Letters They Wrote Home, a.a.O., S. 294 n. 7)

 

US-Corporal aus Ohio (vgl. Engle, Stephen D.: „Yankee Dutchmen“. Germans, the Union, and the Construction of a Wartime Identi­ty; in: Ural, Susan­nah J. (ed.): Civil War Citizens: Race, Ethnicity, and Identity in America's Bloodiest Contest, a.a.O, S. 17); Kühner stammte aus Baden und war 1851 im Alter von 16 Jahren zusammen mit seinem 23 Jahre alten Bruder Karl Friedrich *Kühner aus Unterschefflenz/Baden in die USA nach Albany/NY eingewandert. Mitte der 1850er Jahre zogen die Brüder Kühner nach Ohio, wo­bei Ludwig Kühner sich in Thompson/Ohio niederließ, während sein Bruder Karl Friedrich Kühner nach Trumbull/Ohio zog (vgl. Kamphoefner, Walter and Helbich, Wolfgang (eds.): Germans in the Civil War: The Letters They Wrote Home, a.a.O., S. 292).

 

Ludwig Kühner änderte seinen Namen in Louis Keener (vgl. Kamphoefner, Walter and Helbich, Wolfgang (eds.): Germans in the Civil War: The Letters They Wrote Home, a.a.O., S. 293) bzw. Lewis W. Keener (vgl. National Park Soldiers M552 Roll 57).

 

 

Kuhn, John H.:

US-Major, zunächst Captain 9th Illinois Infantry (vgl. Morrison: The Ninth Regiment, a.a.O., S. 13).Ab 9.9.1861 als Provost Mar­shall eingesetzt in Paducah / Kentucky (vgl. Morrison, a.a.O., S. 16). Major 9th Illinois Infantry am 2.12.1861 (vgl. Morrison, a.a.O., S. 16).

 

 

Kurtz, George W.:

CS-Captain; Co. K, 5th Virginia Infantry Regiment; Kurtz trat als Sergeant in das Regiment (vgl. National Park Soldiers M382 Roll 32); he served as an aide to General Thomas J. (Stonewall) Jackson during the early part of the war.

 

6.3.1838 - † 14.11.1926; beerd. Mount Hebron Cemetery, Winchester City/VA; °° Mary Frances Clayton Kurtz (1850-1936) (vgl. www.findagrave.com, Abruf vom 21.8.2016).

 

Urkunden/Documents/Literature::

- Kurtz, George W.: Papers. Southern Historical Collection. Wilson Library, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill/NC

 

Photo:

- George W. Kurtz ca, 1861 (VMI Archives Photographs Collection)

 

 

Kurtz, L. B.:

US-Captain; Co G 17th Pennsylvania Cavalry (vgl. Martin: Gettysburg, a.a.O., S. 39)