[no picture yet]

Federal (USV)

Private

Bartholomew Kennier

(c. 1836 - 1913)

Home State: Massachusetts

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 2nd Massachusetts Infantry

Before Antietam

A 25 year old operative (factory worker) in Springfield, MA, he enlisted there on 8 March 1862 and mustered in Cambridge, MA on 11 April as a Private in Company I, 2nd Massachusetts Infantry.

On the Campaign

He was wounded in action at Antietam on 17 September 1862 by a gunshot which fractured the head and shaft of his right humerus (upper arm bone).

The rest of the War

Surgeons removed over a third of his humerus soon after he was wounded and Surgeon A. B. [Alexander Breckinridge] Hassan, USA amputated his arm at the shoulder on 20 November. He was discharged for disability on 24 April 1863 and enrolled in the Veteran Reserve Corps on 20 November 1863. He was discharged from the VRC on 20 January 1865.

After the War

He was living in Springfield in 1878.

References & notes

His service from Quint1 and his Compiled Service Records,2 online from fold3. Wound and medical details from the MSHWR.3 His gravesite is on Findagrave.

Birth

c. 1836 in IRELAND

Death

1913; burial in Saint Michael's Cemetery, Springfield, MA

Notes

1 Quint, Alonzo Hall, The Record of the Second Massachusetts Infantry: 1861-1865, Boston: James P. Walker, 1867, pp. 406 - 419 [AotW citation 14474]

2 US War Department, Compiled Service Records of Soldiers who served in US Volunteer organizations enlisted for service during the Civil War, Record Group No. 94 (Adjutant General's Office, 1780's-1917), Washington DC: US National Archives and Records Administration (NARA), 1903-1927 [AotW citation 33104]

3 Barnes, Joseph K., and US Army, Office of the Surgeon General, The Medical and Surgical History of the War of the Rebellion, 6 books, Washington DC: US Government Printing Office, 1870-1883, Volume 2, Part 2, p. 592 [AotW citation 33105]

« Search for another Person