Sanford Pearson Kennedy

Going by Sam, in 1860 he was an 18 year old farm hand living with his parents, 2 brothers, and 22 slaves on their plantation at Rockdale in Randolph County, Al. He enlisted on 19 July 1861 at Montgomery, AL and mustered as a Private in Company D of the 13th Alabama Infantry.

He was with his company at Turner's Gap on South Mountain on 14 September and was wounded in action at Sharpsburg on 17 September 1862.

He was admitted to a Richmond, VA hospital on 26 September and returned to duty on 29 October 1862. He was wounded again, at Chancellorsville, VA on 3 May 1863, and was captured at Gettysburg, PA on 1 July 1863. He was a prisoner at Fort Delaware from 6 July 1863 to 30 October 1864, when he was sent to Point Lookout, MD and was exchanged.

In 1870 he was a miller at Delta in Clay County, AL and in 1880 was a farmer there. He was farming in Cass County, TX by 1900.

His service from his Compiled Service Records1 online from fold3, and from the Alabama Archives,2 both as Samuel P Kennedy. Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1860-1900. His gravesite is on Findagrave.

He married Solome Wagnon (1845-1872) in October 1865 and they had 3 children. He married again, Arcaine Elizabeth Ann Black (1842-1941) in December 1873 and they had 3 sons.

05/22/1842; Randolph County, AL

12/06/1909; Cass County, TX; burial in Hughes Springs Cemetery, Hughes Springs, TX