John Kempf

Giving his age as 24, he enlisted on 2 July 1861 in New York City and mustered in as a Private in Company I, 42nd New York Infantry on 6 July. He was wounded on 30 June 1862, probably at Glendale, VA.

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

He was injured by a blow to the head from a "clubbed musket" at Gettusburg, PA on 3 July 1863. He reenlisted on 25 February 1864 and was wounded in the left ankle and captured in the Wilderness, VA in May. He was still absent, a prisoner, probably at Andersonville, GA, when he was transferred to Company C, 82nd New York Infantry on 28 June 1864. He was transferred again, on 10 July 1864, to Company F, 59th New York, and mustered out with them on 30 June 1865 at Munson's Hill, VA.

He was an unmarried paper hanger in Eudora, KS by 1886, and was a resident of the National Soldiers' Homes in Leavenworth, KS (1886-91), Milwaukee, WI (1891-95), Dayton, OH (1905-1911), and Johnson City, TN (1911-1915).

His service from the State of New York,1 who do not mention any of his wounds, as John Kemp. His Antietam wound from a casualty list in the New York Daily Herald of 25 September 1862, also as Kemp. His Gettysburg, Wilderness, and Andersonville experiences and other personal details from the Registers of the US National Homes for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers (1866-1938), online from FamilySearch.

He lost parts of 3 fingers of his right hand and the middle finger of his left from frostbite - place and date not given.

c. 1834 in GERMANY