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(1838 - 1904)
Home State: Pennsylvania
Branch of Service: Infantry
Before Antietam
Age 24, 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.
On the Campaign
He was wounded in the shoulder by a piece of shell in action at Antietam on 17 September 1862.
The rest of the War
He was treated in a hospital at Camp Curtin in Harrisburg, PA. He mustered out with his company on 21 May 1863.
He enlisted again, in Chambersburg on 5 February 1864 and mustered as a Corporal in Company D, 187th Pennsylvania Infantry on 15 February. He was wounded again, by a gunshot to his left had at Petersburg, VA on 18 June 1864 and was mustered out on 3 August 1865.
After the War
He began receiving a veteran's pension for disability in December 1879. By 1880 and to at least 1900 he was a day laborer at Frankford Township, Cumberland County, PA.
References & notes
His service basics from Bates1 and the Card File.2 Wound and hospital detail from Nelson.3 Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1880 & 1900. His gravesite is on Findagrave.
He married Mary Jane Dunbar (1843-1905) in February 1870 and they had 3 children.
Two other Kennedys, Cyrus and John, were in Company E and also wounded at Antietam.
Birth
1838; Perry County, PA
Death
03/16/1904; Bloserville, PA; burial in Doubling Gap Church Of God Cemetery, Newville, PA
1 Bates, Samuel Penniman, History of the Pennsylvania Volunteers, 1861-65, Harrisburg: State of Pennsylvania, 1868-1871 [AotW citation 11258]
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 31253]
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 31254]