History of Suffolk, (Suffolk (city) County) Virginia United States of America

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Edgar Allen Kimball, soldier, was born in Pembroke, N.H., Jan. 3, 1822. He became a printer in the office of the Baptist Register at Concord, N.H., and from there went to Woodstock, Vt., working in the office of the Spirit of the Age, a Democratic paper, of which he later became owner and editor. On the outbreak of the war with Mexico he was commissioned captain in the 9th U.S. infantry, April 9, 1847. He was brevetted major for gallant and meritorious conduct at Contreras and Churubusco, Aug. 20, 1847, and distinguished himself at Chapultepec by scaling the walls of the stronghold, and after cutting down the flag that floated from the citadel, with the assistance of Maj. Thomas L. Seymour, he received the surrender of the castle. After the cessation of hostilities he opened communication with Vera Cruz, and on his return to the City of Mexico be acted as paymaster of the departing troops, and was himself mustered out at Fort Adams, R.I., Aug. 26, 1848. He accepted a position on the New York Herald, and was appointed weigher in the New York custom-house by President Pierce in 1853. In 1861 he was commissioned major of the 9th New York volunteers, better known as Hawkins's Zouaves. The regiment was first sent to Fort Monroe, and afterward to Newport News, where it formed a part of General Mansfield's brigade on the peninsula. The regiment accompanied General Burnside's expedition to North Carolina, and Kimball led his regiment in storming the Confederate fort on Roanoke island, Feb, 7,1862. For making this, one of the most brilliant charges of the war, he was promoted lieutenant-colonel, Feb. 14, 1862. He took part in the battle of New Berne, N.C., March 14, 1662; succeeded to the command of the regiment, April 3, 1862, and led in the reduction of Fort Macon, N.C., April 25, 1862. His regiment was then assigned to the Army of the Potomac, forming a part of the 1st brigade, 3d division, 9th army corps. He led his regiment in the battles of South Mountain, Sept. 14, 1862; Antietam, Sept. 17, 1862, and Fredericksburg, Dec. 15, 1862. In February, 1863, the division was moved to Newport News, and on April 11, 1863, the 9th New York was ordered to Suffolk, Va., where Colonel Kimball was shot and killed by Col. Michael Corcoran, who declared he had been detained by Kimball when endeavoring to pass through the line on urgent business. He died at Suffolk, Va., April 12, 1863.

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

Milo Mahan, educator and author, was born in Suffolk, Va., May 24, 1819. He was a student at St. Paul's college, Flushing, Long Island; was ordered deacon in the Protestant Episcopal church in 1845, and ordained priest the same year. He was rector of Grace church, Jersey City, N.J., 1818-50, assistant rector of St. Mark's church, Philadelphia, Pa., 1850-51; was professor of ecclesiastical history in the General Theological seminary, New York city, 1851-64, and rector of St. Paul's church, Baltimore, Md., 1864-70. He was married, Aug. 24, 1853, to Mrs. Mary G. Lewis, daughter of Redwood Fisher, of Philadelphia. He received the degree of D.D. from the College of William and Mary, Virginia, 1852. He is the author of: The Exercise of Faith (1831); History of the Church during the First Three Centuries (1860: 2d ed., including seven centuries, 1872); Reply to Colenso (1863); Palmoni, a Free Inquiry (1864); Comedy of Canonization (1868). His works were collected and published, with a memoir, by the Rev. John Henry Hopkins, Jr. (3 vols., 1872-75). He died in Baltimore, Md., Sept. 3, 1870.

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