Charles Nicholas Kinney

In 1860 he was an 18 year old farm worker, like his father, and lived with his parents and 4 siblings at Clarkson in Monroe County, NY. He enlisted at Rochester, NY for three years and mustered as a Private in Company G, 108th New York Infantry on 6 August 1862.

He was badly bruised by a gunshot to the left side of his skull in action at Antietam on 17 September 1862.

He was treated at the 3rd Division/2nd Corps field hospital at Sharpsburg then sent to Mount Pleasant Hospital in Washington, DC on 26 September. He was furloughed on 2 November and returned to duty, but was discharged for wounds from the regimental hospital at Rochester on 17 (or 24) December 1862.

His doctor in Rochester reported removing chunks of skull bone in January 1863.

In 1870 he was a farmer in Waterloo, Grant County, WI but by 1880 was a carpenter there. He moved from Wisconsin to Boone County, NE in 1880 and homesteaded near Petersburg to about 1896, when he moved into town. He was a house carpenter there by 1900 and to at least 1910. He'd finally retired in Petersburg by 1920, then age 78.

Basic service information from the State of New York,1 as Charles Kinnie. Wound and hospital details from the MSHWR,2 as Charles Kinne. Personal details from family genealogists, the US Census of 1860-1920, and his obituary in the Albion (NE) Argus of 6 December 1928. His gravesite is on Findagrave.

He married Mary Catherine Garner (1851-1933) in June 1867 at Waterloo, WI, and they had 11 children (7 survived him).

11/01/1841; Richmond, NY

12/03/1928; Petersburg, NE; burial in Mount Pleasant Cemetery, Petersburg, NE