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Bibliographic Essay
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Bibliographic Essay + There are several sources for Kimball’s life before and after the Civil War. These include “Biographical Sketch,” William H. Kimball Papers ,Burton Historical Collection,Detroit Public Library; Spring Arbor Historical Commission, Spring Arbor Township, 1830–1980 (Spring Arbor, Mich.: Spring Arbor Historical Commission, 1980), 100–101; Works Progress Administration, comp., Jackson County Family History (n.p., 1936), 132–34; obituary in the Ludington Morning News, October 31, 1920, 1; and Perry F. Powers, A History of Northern Michigan and Its Peoples, 1857–1945 (Chicago: Lewis, 1912), 711–12. Kimball’s involvement in the Grand Army of the Republic is drawn from records of the Pap Williams Post, no. 15, GAR Records, in the Archives of Michigan , Lansing. Additional information is found in files of the Historic White Pine Village in Ludington, operated by the Mason County Historical Society. The most complete account of Kimball’s regiment is the author’s My Brave Mechanics: The First Michigan Engineers and Their Civil War (Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 2007). Additional information , including several photos used in this publication, is in Charles R. Sligh, History of the Services of the First Regiment Michigan Engineers and Mechanics, during the Civil War, 1861–1865 (Grand Rapids, Mich.: White, 1921). There are many accounts of the Civil War in the KentuckyTennessee theater where Kimball served, but the following were particularly helpful: Larry J. Daniel, Days of Glory:The Army of the Cumberland , 1861–1865 (Baton Rouge: Louisiana University Press, 2004); James 160 bibliographic essay Lee McDonough, War in Kentucky: From Shiloh to Perryville (Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1994); Kenneth W. Noe, Perryville: This Grand Havoc of Battle (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2001); and Frank Welcher,The Union Army, 1861–1865: Organization and Operations , vol. 2 (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1993). The theme of civilian response to military occupation is thoroughly discussed in several excellent studies, most notably Mark Grimsley, The Hard Hand of War: Union Military Policy toward Southern Civilians, 1861– 1865 (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1995); and two books by Stephen V. Ash, When the Yankees Came: Conflict and Chaos in the Occupied South, 1861–1865 (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1995) and Middle Tennessee Society Transformed, 1860–1870: War and Peace in the Upper South (Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1988).Two recent additions to this field of study from Louisiana State University Press are Bradley R. Clampitt, The Confederate Heartland: Military and Civilian Morale in the Western Confederacy (2011) and LeeAnn Whites and Alecia P. Long, Occupied Women: Gender, Military Occupation, and the American Civil War (2009).The shift to a harder-war policy has been most effectively summarized by James M. McPherson in Tried by War: Abraham Lincoln as Commander in Chief (New York: Penguin, 2008), especially 103–7. Several sources provided the basis for most of the information on individuals with whom Kimball served,including those in the appendix. These sources include U.S. Census schedules for 1850 to 1930; Record of Service of Michigan Volunteers in the Civil War, vol.43 (Kalamazoo,Mich.: Ihling Bros. and Everard, 1904); and the collections of the National Archives,Washington,D.C.,especially pension files in Record Group 15 and regimental papers in Record Group 94. Burial information is from the author’s personal surveys, various cemetery transcriptions, and the online graves database of the Sons of Union Veterans of the Civil War. ...