William Kidd
William Kidd, an Albany resident, joined Rodney Kimball and Albert Husted in recruiting the
Normal School Company. He was rewarded with a first lieutenancy, and served in Company E
until January 28, 1863, participating in the Battle of Fredericksburg. He resigned upon receiving
a letter from the N. Y. Adjutant-General, John T. Sprague, promising Kidd a commission as
major in the "Sprague Light Cavalry," which was being organized at that time. The cavalry
regiment never materialized, and Kidd was appointed military secretary to N. Y. Governor
Horatio Seymour. He received the rank of major, and maintained the position until the end of the
war. After the war, he lived in Saratoga Springs, N. Y., and by 1911 he had moved to
Washington D. C. (1)
1. Nash, 200; Albert N. Husted, "'New' Company E, 44th N. Y. Vol.," in Nash, 261.
