Michael Kenny

Age 25, giving his name as William Smith, he enlisted on Long Island, NY, and mustered as a Private in Company F, 42nd New York Infantry on 22 June 1861. He transferred to Company C the next day and was promoted to Corporal, date not given.

He was captured in action at Antietam on 17 September 1862.

He was exchanged and returned to duty, date not found. He was captured again, on the Jerusalem Plank Road at Petersburg, VA on 22 June 1864 and held at Andersonville, GA, where he died of disease on 27 October 1864.

His service from the State of New York.1 His presence at Antietam from research in his widowed mother Bridget's pension file kindly shared by Damian Shiels; Bridget received her US pension in Ireland. His gravesite, as Michael Kinney, is on Findagrave.

Much more about US military pensions paid in Ireland may be found on Damian's Yankee Pensioners in Ireland 1845-1905: An Interactive Map.

c. 1836; Galway City, IRELAND

10/27/1864; Andersonville, GA; burial in Andersonville National Cemetery, Andersonville National Historic Site, Macon Cou