Samuel Pierce Kenney

In 1860 he was a 23 year old clerk living with clerk James McAllister and family at Athens, Clarke County, GA. He enlisted in Athens, GA as 4th Sergeant of Company D of the Infantry Battalion, Cobb's Legion, on 5 September 1861. He was appointed First Sergeant by September 1862.

He was wounded by gunshots to his face and thigh and captured in action at Crampton's Gap on South Mountain on 14 September 1862.

He was treated at the US 6th Army Corps field hospital in Burkittsville, MD, then a prisoner at Fort McHenry in Baltimore. On 20 October he was sent to Fortress Monroe, VA for exchange and was admitted to a hospital in Richmond, VA and furloughed for 40 days on 12 November 1862. He was paid for recruiting duty as Sub-enrolling Officer for Jackson County, GA from 6 March to 12 October 1863 with no later record with the Legion.

He was commissioned First Lieutenant of Company H, 13th Battalion Georgia Cavalry to date from 19 September 1863 and was with them to at least 27 April 1864, when he applied for retirement due to disability of his jaw and neck from his Maryland wound, and was probably assigned to the Invalid Corps sometime after June of that year. He was detailed in command of a detachment of horses of the 16th Georgia Battalion to at least September 1864. His application for retirement was still in progress in December 1864 while Confederate authorities attempted to find him on the rolls of the 16th Battalion, of which there was no Company H; he was not. There is no later military record.

By 1870 and to at least 1910 he was a farmer near Athens, GA.

His service from his Compiled Service Records,1 online from fold3, also as Samuel P. Kinney. Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1860-1910. His gravesite is on Findagrave, source also of a broken photograph of him in Sergeant's stripes.

He married Nancy Elizabeth Jackson (1846-1891) in September 1869 and they had 8 children.

07/18/1836; Athens, GA

04/18/1918; Clarke County, GA; burial in Prospect United Methodist Church Cemetery, Jackson County, GA