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Myron Kennedy, 19, of New York, is discharged from the United States Army in June 1865 after almost 3 years of service.
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To all whom is may Concern:
Know ye, That Myron Kennedy a Corporal of Captain J.H. Parker's Company (H) 10th Regiment of N.Y. Artillery VOLUNTEERS who was enrolled on the ninth day of August one thousand eight hundred and sixty-two to serve three years or during the war, is hereby Discharged from the service of the United States this twenty-third day of June, 1865, at Petersburg, Virginia by reason of Order of War Dept May 29, 1865. (No objection to his being re-enlisted is known to exist.)
Said Myron Kennedy was born in Pamelia in the State of N.Y., is nineteen years of age, five feet eleven inches high, light complexion, gray eyes, red hair, and by occupation, when enrolled, a farmer,
Given at Petersburg this twenty-third day of June 1865.
[signed] Hermann Mauth[?]
[signed] J.H. Parker
Capt 10th N.Y. Arty
[illegible annotation]
Creation Date
6-23-1865
City
Petersburg
State/Province
Virginia
Keywords
discharge, myron kennedy, J.H. Parker, Company H 10th Regiment of N.Y. Artillery, 1865, Petersburg
Resource Identifier
070430-07
Date Digital
10-6-2013
Document Type
Manuscript
Disciplines
Military History | Political History | Social History | United States History
Publisher
Wofford College
Format (medium)
manuscript
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Language
en-US
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600ppi or 800ppi 24-bit depth color; Scanned with an Epson 15000 Photo scanner with Epson Scan software; Archival master is a TIFF; Original converted to JPEG with Irfan View, Fast Stone, or GIMP software. JPEGs compiled in PDF using Adobe Acrobat XI Pro.
Source
The original from which this digital representation is taken is housed in The Littlejohn Collection at Wofford College, located in the Sandor Teszler Library.
Recommended Citation
U.S. Government, "Discharge of Myron Kennedy" (1865). Broadus R. Littlejohn, Jr. Manuscript and Ephemera Collection. 21.
https://digitalcommons.wofford.edu/littlejohnmss/21
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