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Federal (USV)

Private

John Kennedy

(c. 1842 - ?)

Home State: New York

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 57th New York Infantry

Before Antietam

Age 19, he enlisted on 24 August 1861 in New York City and mustered as a Private in Company A, 57th New York Infantry on 4 September.

On the Campaign

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

The rest of the War

He was listed as a deserter in New York City on 7 January 1863.

References & notes

His service from the State of New York.1 He's probably the soldier on the Patient List 2 as being in the 51st New York: admitted the US hospital at Camp A, Frederick, MD on 3 October with gunshot both legs, later transferred to GH #1 there, with no later information.

Birth

c. 1842

Notes

1 State of New York, Adjutant-General, Annual Report of the Adjutant General of the State of New York [year]: Registers of the [units], 43 Volumes, Albany: James B. Lyon, State Printer, 1893-1905, Issue 26 (for 1900) [AotW citation 7790]

2 National Museum of Civil War Medicine, and Terry Reimer, Frederick Patient List, Published 2018, first accessed 17 September 2018, <http://www.civilwarmed.org/explore/primary-sources/databases/frederickpatient/>, Source page: patient #140 [AotW citation 30350]

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