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Gallant Fourteenth: The Story of an Indiana Civil War Regiment
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lodge in Mount Pleasant, Indiana. Kimball won election to the
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Medical School in 1844 and established a private practice in
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Sons of Union Veterans of the Civil War webpage for Kimball
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