Show 1 01 i WAR reminiscence NSE la in important epoch io in the shenandoah valley fight I 1 WHIPPED HIPPED BY i deals postmaster general kimball Ki mial won IVOR I 1 ike aull I 1 letory over tbt the great southern fighter I 1 i there is no class claw of men save perhaps I 1 1 the pioneers of a country who i retain ha 0 long the memories of their assoria associations eions as do soldiers battles I 1 are not fought for fun his love for bis ills country is a soldiers bulwark 1 1 and it is that love which gives him I 1 strength to endure the hardships of camp and march and courage to stand I 1 before the bullets of the enemy since the war is ended there are none who wish it might be renewed but but there are many old gray haired I 1 I 1 veterans who look back to the t associations of army life with a satisfaction which has nos no sign ifo 12 0 of f Irl bloating r over the vanquished foe pariona I 1 organizations actions have spir rung up which by b their the annual dual meetings renew the I 1 I 1 0 oad friendships friende hips made in the war days the records of these meetings are I 1 read b by those who are ate separated by long distances is from their compatriots com compa patrio trios s I 1 and many a pleas pleasant a t hour is spent in I 1 recalling the days of V victory and even defeat TI they are bits of bieter history y K many of which may never appear in I 1 the archives which chronicle the great war of the rebell rebe lion Illion but they ar are 0 filed away by thousands of old soldiers di e to who cherish them as reminders of f their experiences it was one of these records which a STANDARD reporter found general kimball perusing at his home yesterday while sitting in a big armchair arm chair I 1 ill with lung trouble I 1 the T h Is general had been bedfast for the past week and yesterday was the first be he was able to sit bit up while so prevented from attending to bis his duties his mind reverts to the war days the record I 1 mentioned is a printed pamphlet briefly describing the battle of kerns town being an incident of importance in the campaign of general banks in the valley of the shenandoah I 1 the paper was prepare prepared by brevet i colonel george K john Job joanson so p la late to medical r ikpe inspector C tor ol 01 the united n its d st states a tes army arm Y and an d read at the meeting of the michigan comm andary of the loyal I 1 legion ion ladt month the pride with I 1 rh which aich general kimball read the account I 1 cou t of bis his own valor as told by a comrade comra dg is not only pardonable but ut commendable co m m in a man whose hairs are w whitened not alone by years bat but by the hardships ps of life in the field I 1 As he be approaches the end of I 1 lifes campaign c arn laign no one who knows I 1 the kindness of bis his heart and the courage of his manhood and the bravery with which he stood by the old flag nag would deny him the pleasure of enjoying the appreciation of an old comrade nor of pride in the compliment paid him in this little a cen ence C e all who kneir ov the history of he the late war especially they who read or helped to write that history in he the daily press of thirty years ago remember I 1 the campaign ol 01 the shenandoah aid many who ho may have forgotten certain incidents will have heir their memory freshened by this short recital stonewall jackson the rebel gen 6 eral was one of the most prominent I 1 f figures in that campaign as be was A also a noted soldier in the war he ile d was a bard fighter though probably possessing ing less of the strategy which h makes generals geneT als great than did other soldiers eol diers inferior in rank he ile was a hard man to whip and fell at last by a shot from one of his file own soldiers he ile met but one decisive defeat duri during n 9 the war and this at the hands of the gray bained general who to day lies here in ogden general kimball was then colonel of the indiana US thia his important battle was wag fought on ta the day of march 1869 general of Str ielda was in command of three al brigades consisting of thirteen regiments 11 of tary and the let michigan t gan cavalry and these three brigades ia were commanded by colonel kimball 4 e colonel tyler and colonel sullivan respectively general banks t left the division on the a morning of the tile day the battle occurred occa not being aware of the approach a roach of stonewall oSo So newall jackson general 44 chields shields was informed that the enemy was near at hand band in the afternoon of a the but he scouted the idea and I 1 it was not till he be had been advised the second time that be he paid any attention and then still incredulous rode with part of bis his staff towards a range range of E bills leaa less than a mile from the union camp when within a short y 1 distance lie tanca be he raise raised J his field glass and W beffre he tie could clearl clearly ysee see the enemy il received a wound from a piece of 0 shell which pat put him in the hospital for or several days the command devolved vol ad on colonel kimball tte immediate mediate enemy was ashbes cavalry but jackson waa wa s bard hard by and moving toward the union forces whom he be supposed to be in command of general banka banks he ile believed be had 96 a hard bard fi fight bt to make inake but ho he did not I 1 realize I 1 that stat he was to be whipped by b y a it coland coll nel of small experience extence after deliberation colonel kimball established bis his lines near miles from winchester and there on the morning of the awaited t X the action the position taken was a good one and thee attack of the enemy yere were well met although the fighting was not no t extensive but just after noon that fearless man stonewall jackson came on the field with bla his full fall command I 1 and began operations which colonel kimball saw must be met I 1 with coolness wisdom and courage he HO was equal to the occasion but be he was in doubt as to whether backson Yack jackcon Jac keon son in choosing a position meant to attack atack I 1 or stand on the defensive dete neive but B t t be ne bellied settled his own line of action by resolving to force t this his new stron stronghold 1 of the enemy thisbe this he followed followed out by ordering an assault about 5 clock that afternoon it was a hard fight it could not be else with euch such a man tor for a leader of the enemy as se jackson ackson who bad massed bis his muskets and planted his battery behind I 1 a long stone wall which afforded A an excellent shield from the shot and d shell of the union forces but colonel kimball kimbal I 1 soon pushed hie his command up to a and n d then over this a stone tone wall and then came the action which decided tho the battle the loss in killed and wounded was wits about equally equally divided but colonel kirn kim balls 11 command had captured prisoners and won a victory which proved his capacity as a stra getic brave foldier eol dier and a born commander jackson jackso charged his defeat to the thel weakness of general garnett and he be probably felt very much disconcerted when he learned that be had started in to whip a great general and bad had to take a licking from a colonel whose wb promotion 0 to t the h a command of the the oivi division 2 was the result of an accident but st stonewall 0 newall jackson could feel assured th that a t he be meta met a I 1 soldier who like himself ile if knew how to fight and possessed pose essed the courage to do it |