Chester Kinney, Jr.

Age 40, a laborer in Fabius, Onondaga County, NY, he enlisted on 11 October 1861 in New York City for three years and mustered as a Private in Company G, 61st NY Infantry on 17 October.

He was wounded in the forearm, between the radius and the ulna, in action at Antietam on 17 September 1862.

He was discharged for disability on 22 October in Philadelphia, PA. He enlisted again, at Syracuse, NY on 27 November, and mustered as a Private in Company H, 176th Infantry, a 9-month unit, on 22 December 1862. He was probably captured, with the majority of his regiment, at Brashear City (now Morgan City), LA on 23 June 1863. Most of the men were paroled afterward and marched to New Orleans. He died of disease in camp at Bonnet Carre, LA on 19 August 1863.

His service from the State of New York,1 also as Chester Kinnie. The pointer to his wound at Antietam was a casualty list in an undated news clipping online from the NY State Military Museum. Wound detail from Nelson.2 Another undated clipping notes his capture (as Charles Kinney) in Louisiana. His residence and occupation from the Town Clerks' Registers of Men Who Served in the Civil War, ca 1865–1867 for Fabius, NY; thanks to P.A. White for posting that to Chester's memorial on Findagrave.

c. 1820; Cortland County, NY

08/19/1863; Bonnet Carre, LA