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Federal (USV)

Private

Patrick Kenney

(? - 1917)

Home State: Connecticut

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 8th Connecticut Infantry

Before Antietam

From New Hartford, CT. He enlisted on 3 September 1861 and mustered as a Private in Company C, 8th Connecticut Infantry on 25 September.

On the Campaign

He was slightly wounded in his left side in action at Antietam on 17 September 1862.

The rest of the War

He was discharged on 25 September 1864 at the end of his term of enlistment.

References & notes

His service from the Record.1 Wound detail from Major Ward's after-action report. His gravesite is on Findagrave; his "Civil War" stone has his age at death as 70, which would have had him enlisting at age 14, which is possible, but unlikely.

Death

03/20/1917; burial in Saint Lawrence Cemetery, West Haven, CT

Notes

1 State of Connecticut, Adjutant General's Office, and AGs Smith, Camp, and Barbour, and AAG White, Record of Service of Connecticut Men in the Army and Navy of the United States during the War of the Rebellion, Hartford: Press of the Case, Lockwood, and Brainard Company, 1889, p. 338 [AotW citation 30714]

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