History of Lawrence, (Nassau County) New York United States of America

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Amos Samuel Kimball, soldier, was born in Lawrence, N.Y., July 14, 1840; son of James and Sophia (Taft) Kimball, and grandson of Amos Kimball. He was graduated at the State Normal school, Albany, N.Y., in 1859, and in November, 1861, was commissioned 1st lieutenant in the 98th New York volunteer infantry. He served with the Army of the Potomac to November, 1862, participating in McClellan's peninsula campaign; with General Hunter in the Carolinas to March, 1866, being present at the first bombardment of Charleston, S.C.; and serving in North Carolina with Heckman's brigade to June, 1868, and as acting quartermaster at Roanoke Island, N.C., to April, 1864, where he brought 2000 negroes through the Confederate lines to the island. He was commissioned captain and assistant quartermaster of volunteers, April 7, 1864, and was in charge of water transportation at Fort Monroe, Va., to September, 1864, where he outfitted Butler's expedition to Bermuda Hundred and Terry's expedition to Fort Fisher. He volunteered his services and was ordered to Newbern, N.C., where the yellow fever was epidemic and had stricken every officer of the quartermaster's department, and where he became ill with the plague. He served as chief quartermaster at Newbern till April, 1865, when he was ordered to New York as assistant to the depot quartermaster, was brevetted captain, major, lieutenant-colonel and colonel by the state and appointed major of volunteers by brevet and assistant quartermaster with the rank of captain, U.S.A. From August, 1866, to April, 1867, he was in charge of the depot and chief quartermaster of the Middle military department, Baltimore, Md. He had charge of Sheridan's base of supplies in the Indian campaign of 1868-69; was quartermaster, Department of Arizona, and field quartermaster with General Miles in the campaign against Geronimo in 1887; was chief quartermaster of various military departments, 1887-97, and in March, 1897, was assigned to the charge of the general depot of the quartermaster's department in New York city. During the Spanish War of 1898 he distributed over $8,000,000 in four months, purchased and distributed to the array in the field 100,000 uniforms in twenty days, and purchased and shipped to Tampa, Fla., fifteen car-loads of intrenching tools in thirty-six hours. His duties included transportation of troops, purchase and distribution of supplies and the purchase and charter of transport vessels. On Nov. 13, 1898, he was promoted assistant quartermaster-general with the rank of colonel, U.S.A.

From: Twentieth Century Biographical Dictionary of Notable Americans, Johnson, Rossiter, editor

History of Lawrence, (Nassau County) New York

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