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Andrew Jackson Kidd |
| Born |
14 May 1841 |
Winchester, Frederick, Virginia, USA  |
- Travis, A History of Clay County, Indiana, v. II 11: "Andrew Jackson Kidd . . . was born in Frederick County, Virginia, May 14, 1841 . . . near Winchester . . ."
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| Gender |
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- Military service:
"Andrew J. Kidd 10 Indiana Inf (3 months 1861), Pvt. in Pvt. out"
UNION INDIANA VOLUNTEERS
10th Regiment, Indiana Infantry (3 months, 1861)
Organized at Indianapolis, Ind., April 22-25, 1861. Duty near Evansville, Ind., till June 7. Ordered to West Virginia June 7. Attached to Rosecrans' Brigade, McClellan's Army of West Virginia. Occupation of Buckhannon June 30. West Virginia Campaign July 6-17. Battle of Rich Mountain July 11. Duty at Beverly till July 24. Mustered out August 2, 1861.
Regiment lost during service 4 Enlisted men killed and mortally wounded and 2 Enlisted men by disease. Total 6.
"Andrew J. Kidd 55 Indiana Inf (3 months 1861 [sic]), 2d Lt.
55th Regiment, Indiana Infantry (3 months, 1862)
Organized at Indianapolis, Ind., for three months June 16, 1862. Duty at Camp Morton, Ind., guarding prisoners till August. Operations against Morgan July 4-28. Ordered to Kentucky, August, and attached to Manson's Brigade, Army of Kentucky, District of Central Kentucky. Battle of Richmond, Ky., August 30. Mostly captured. Paroled and sent to Indianapolis, Ind. Mustered out September 6 to October 23, 1862.
Regiment lost while in service 1 Officer and 9 Enlisted men killed and mortally wounded and 3 Enlisted men by disease. Total 13."
"Andrew J. Kidd 154 Indiana Inf, Co. K, Pvt. in, Sgt. out.
154th Regiment, Indiana Infantry
Organized at Indianapolis, Ind., April 20, 1865. Left State for Parkersburg, W. Va., April 30; thence moved to Stevenson's Station, Shenandoah Valley, Va., May 2-4. Duty at Stevenson's Station till June 27, and at Opequan Creek till August 4. Mustered out August 4, 1865.
Lost during service 1 Enlisted man killed and 40 Enlisted men by disease. Total 41."
US Census Brazil, Clay, IN 1870: "Jackson Kidd, age 29 b. Abt. 1841 Virginia, carpenter real estate owned $500, wife Belle age 15 b. Indiana; Nancy Kidd [sic] age 63 b. Abt. 1807 Virginia."
Civil War Pension Index:
"Kidd, Andrew J, widow Kidd, Arabelle, application 1166739, certificate 895723 Indiana"
- Encyclopedic Directory of Clay County, IN:
http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~inclay/enc-dir/index.htm
"Kidd, A.J., furniture business, Kidd & Co. owns 7 & 9 East Main St.; lives and owns 16 Blaine St.;b. Frederick, VA 1841, arrrived Clay County 1857."
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| Person ID |
I29493 |
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| Last Modified |
4 Aug 2009 |
| Father |
Andrew Kidd, b. Abt. 1801, Frederick, VA , d. 17 Dec 1862, Clay City, Clay County, Indiana, USA (Age ~ 61 years) |
| Mother |
Nancy Whittington, b. Abt. 1806, Frederick, VA , d. 06 Sep 1873, Clay City, Clay County, Indiana, USA (Age ~ 67 years) |
| Married |
23 Dec 1833 |
Frederick, VA |
- Virginia Marriages, 1740-1850: Andrew Kidd & Nancy Whittington, 23 Dec 1833, Frederick, VA"
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| Family ID |
F18039435 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
| Family |
Arabelle Webster, b. 15 Oct 1854, Clay City, Clay County, Indiana, USA |
| Married |
15 Nov 1868 |
Clay City, Clay County, Indiana, USA |
- Travis, A History of Clay County, Indiana, v. II 12: "Andrew Jackson Kidd . . . 15 Nov 1868 was united in marriage to Arabelle Webster"
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| Last Modified |
4 Aug 2009 |
| Family ID |
F18039493 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
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 | Born - 14 May 1841 - Winchester, Frederick, Virginia, USA |
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 | Married - 15 Nov 1868 - Clay City, Clay County, Indiana, USA |
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| Sources |
- [S55] A History of Clay County Indiana, William Travis, (Name: reprint, Evansville IN: Unigraphics; Location: New York: Lewis, 1909;; Date: 1973;), 117.
"Chapter XVII. Brazil--Town and City. The question of incorporation of the town of Brazil was submitted to the qualified citizens of the proposed site on the first day of October 1866. . . . The list of those who were qualified to vote on that day are a list of charter citizens: . . . A.J. Kidd, J.W. Kidd . . ."
p. 351: "Names of the first company of 'Three Months' Volunteers from Clay County who enlisted for the Civil War Service: . . .Andrew J. Kidd . . . The company was mustered into service at Indianapolis, on the 25th day of April 1861, and mustered out on the 6th day of August following. . . ."
Volume II, 11: "Andrew Jackson Kidd, one of the veterans of the Civil War and an energetic business factor of Clay County, IN was born in Frederick County, Virginia, May 14, 1841, son of Andrew and Nancy (Whittington) Kidd, both of whom were natives of the same county in which their son was born . . . near Winchester. [He] accompanied [1857] his parents when but a small boy and had resided there the greater part of his life. He was reared to farm pursuits and attended school when opportunity afforded him the chance. When sixteen years old he went to Brazil with his parents and there was employed in a brick-yard and also farmed up to 1861, when he enlisted . . . for three months' service. . . . He saw [12] service in West Virginia and was at the battle of Rich Mountain, Virginia and participated in all the numerous skirmishes in which his regiment was engaged.
He returned to Brazil and worked in the carpentering trade until the spring of 1862 when he re-enlisted . . .for one hundred days, was on detached duty as a second lieutenant. He made several trips up and down the Ohio River to points in Kentucky. . . . Mr. Kidd was returned to Indianapolis where he was discharged in 1862.
[He] went into the employ of Warren Ashley at making wheat fans at Crawfordsville. There he worked in the shops summers and during the other months of the year went on horseback collecting in Cass, Hendricks, Benton, Putnam, Owen, and Clay Counties.
In the spring of 1865, he enlisted . . . as a sergeant. Owing to the close of the war, his regiment got only as far as Winchester, VA, where they were discharged and had the pleasure of there meeting many old schoolmates, including several who had served in the Southern army, while others had been hiding in the mountains. On his return home, he met his cousin, Robert Kidd, who had been in the Southern army.
After arriving in Brazil, Mr. Kidd formed a partnership with John Stough and Mark M. Perkins; together they erected a shop. . . .
[After two years or so, he left] to follow carpentering until 1868, when he, with [his father-in-law], John L. Webster, purchased the timber on a one hundred and twenty acre lot in Parke County, to which land Mr. Kidd moved in March 1869, living in a one room log house. There they manufactured shingles for a few months when they sold out and Mr. Kidd returned to Brazil, where he operated a furniture store and chair factory a short time, after which he manufactured barrels one winter. In the autumn of 1872, he went to work for Sherfey Bros. and their various successors, and finally he became associated with the firm of Sherfey, Kidd & Co., dealers in furniture, carpets, and draperies.
Mr. Kidd is a firm supporter of Republican principles and in church faith is of the Christian denomination. [On] November 15, 1869, he was united in marriage to Arabelle Webster, born Clay, IN 15 Oct 1854, daughter of John L. and Fannie (Brenton) Webster. . . .
[They] are parents of the following children: John Charles, a member of the firm of Turner, Seifers, & Kidd, insurance and real estate; Fannie M, wife of G.P. McCarty, a businessman of Rushville, IN; Jennie E. wife of Dr. J.F. Baker of Brazil, IN, and Robert M., a sign painter."
- [S310] Harpers Weekly, 467, 27 Jul 1861.
http://www.sonofthesouth.net/leefoundation/civil-war/1861/july/rich-mountain-battle.htm
"THE BATTLE OF RICH MOUNTAIN.
A brilliant battle, resulting in a complete success, signalized the opening of the campaign of General McClellan in Western Virginia. It occurred on Thursday afternoon at Rich Mountain, where a force of 2000 rebels were strongly intrenched under Colonel Pegram. The official dispatch of General McClellan to the War Department, dated from Rich Mountain, states that he dispatched Brigadier-General Rosencrans, a young and able West Point officer of engineers, with four regiments of Ohio and Indiana troops, as an advance-body, through the mountains from Roaring Rum, a distance of eight miles, over which route they had to cut their way through the woods. After a march of nearly twelve hours, General Rosencrans came on the rear of the rebels, and, after a desperate fight of an hour and a half, completely routed them, driving them in the utmost disorder into the woods, and capturing all their guns, wagons, and camp equipage, or, as General McClellan says, "all they had." They also took several prisoners, many officers among them. Sixty of the rebels were killed, and a large number wounded. Of the Union troops twenty were killed and forty wounded. General McClellan had his guns mounted to command the rebel's position, but he found that the gallantry of Rosencrans spared him the trouble of going into action."
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