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Federal (USV)

Private

Pembroke S. Kendall

(1844 - ?)

Home State: Pennsylvania

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 106th Pennsylvania Infantry

Before Antietam

He mustered into service as Private, Company D, 106th Pennsylvania Infantry on 27 August 1861.

On the Campaign

He was wounded in action at Antietam on 17 September 1862.

The rest of the War

He was promoted to Corporal on 1 September (or October) 1863 and was again wounded, at Spotsylvania Court House, Virginia in May 1864. He mustered out with his Company on 10 September 1864.

After the War

By 1876 he was receiving a disability pension for a gunshot wound to the left thigh and by 1883 it was $4 a month and he was then living in St. Paul, MN.

References & notes

Service information from Bates1 and Ward.2 His pension details from the Pension Office's List of Pensioners on the Roll January 1, 1883. His gravesite is on Findagrave.

Birth

1844 in PA

Death

Date not known; burial in Cascade Community Cemetery, Cascade, Dubuque County, IA

Notes

1 Bates, Samuel Penniman, History of the Pennsylvania Volunteers, 1861-65, Harrisburg: State of Pennsylvania, 1868-1871 [AotW citation 10861]

2 Ward, Joseph R. C., History of the One-Hundred and Sixth Regiment Pennsylvania Volunteers, 1861-1865 (2nd Ed.), Philadelphia: Grant, Faires & Rogers, 1906, pg. 327 [AotW citation 21520]

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