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(1838 - 1898)
Home State: Pennsylvania
Branch of Service: Infantry
Before Antietam
A carpenter's son, in 1860 he was a 21 year old carpenter living with his parents and 6 siblings in East Waterford, Tuscarora Township, Juniata County, PA. He enlisted at Newville, PA on 6 August 1862 and mustered in Harrisburg as a Corporal in Company E, 130th Pennsylvania Infantry on 12 August. He was promoted to Sergeant but reduced again to Corporal in September.
On the Campaign
He was wounded in the right arm in action at Antietam on 17 September 1862.
The rest of the War
He was treated in a hospital in the Academy building on East Queen Street in Chambersburg, PA. He mustered out with his company on 21 May 1863.
After the War
By 1870 and to at least 1880 he was a carpenter at Carlisle in Columbia County, PA. In 1890 he was in Shippensburg, PA. He began receiving a veteran's pension for disability in February 1893.
References & notes
His service basics from Bates1 and the Card File.2 Wound and hospital detail from Nelson.3 Personal details from family genealogists, the US Census of 1860-1880, and the Veteran's Census of 1890. His gravesite is on Findagrave.
He married Mary McCune Highlands (1836-1913) in about 1861 and they had at least 8 children.
Two other Kennedys, Alex and John, were in Company E and also wounded at Antietam.
Birth
12/27/1838; Newton, PA
Death
03/03/1898; Cumberland County, PA; burial in Spring Hill Cemetery, Shippensburg, PA
1 Bates, Samuel Penniman, History of the Pennsylvania Volunteers, 1861-65, Harrisburg: State of Pennsylvania, 1868-1871 [AotW citation 11257]
2 Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Adjutant-General, Pennsylvania Civil War Veterans' Card File, 1861-1866, Published <2005, first accessed 01 July 2005, <http://www.digitalarchives.state.pa.us/archive.asp?view=ArchiveIndexes&ArchiveID=17> [AotW citation 31249]
3 Nelson, John H., As Grain Falls Before the Reaper: The Federal Hospital Sites and Identified Federal Casualties at Antietam, Hagerstown: John H. Nelson, 2004, p. 272 [AotW citation 31250]