The Kimberlins Go to War by Michael B. Murphy

Author:Michael B. Murphy
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780871953780
Publisher: Indiana Historical Society
Published: 2016-11-11T05:00:00+00:00

Defeat, Draft, and Emancipation

With southern Indiana politicians fanning the flames, 1862 did not promise to be a good year for the Union cause in Indiana. Benjamin Kimberlin sounded hopeful in a letter to his brother, Jacob R., while in reserve before Corinth, Mississippi. Benjamin wrote:

the other great battle that has long been expected here has not come off yet, but we are almost expecting it to commence every day our pickets and the rebel pickets has a skirmish nearly every day and I think there cant be many days before a general engagement will take place for our army is advancing on Corinth slowly. Jake I don’t know how it looks to you but I think the Secesh is nearly played out and if we whip them here it will bring the war nearly to a close. … let me know how all of your crop looks and how you are getting along generally particularly among the girls. As to the crop part I expect you are doing very well, for you wrote that you had a good plough team and was going to ploughing in a few days for corn, Jake I don’t mean that you can get along better with a crop than you can with the girls for I think you are the boy that can get along very well with boath, not using any flattery or anything of the kind.24

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