 He left college in April 1861 to enlist in the Confederate States Army, was promoted to the rank of captain in 1863 and served throughout the Civil War.In 1864, Kitchin married Maria Figures Arrington (1848–1911), who would bear eight sons and a daughter who survived to adulthood, and would herself survive her husband of more than three decades by a decade.Kitchin's sons and daughters, in order of their ages were