McPherson Kennedy
Name: McPherson Kennedy
Affiliation: Confederate
Unit: 1st VA Cav.; 1st MD Inf.
Race: White
Place of Birth/Residence: Washington County, MD
Enlistment Date: 03/10/1862
Company: K (VA); A (MD)
Rank at End of Service: 2nd Lieutenant
Notes:
Enlisted in Richmond, VA as a private; Transferred to 1st MD Cav., Co. A on 05/15/1862; Transferred to 1st MD Cav., Co. B; Promoted to 2nd Lieutenant while in 1st MD Cav., Co. B; Listed as a resident of Washington County, MD on Ancestry.com
Source(s):
American Civil War Soldiers [database on-line], Ancestry.com; Robert J. Driver, Jr., First and Second Maryland Cavalry, C.S.A. (Charlottesville, VA: Rockbridge Publishing ([an imprint of Howell Press, Inc.], 1999), 250; Paul and Rita Gordon, Frederick County, Maryland: A Playground of the Civil War (The Heritage Partnership, Frederick, MD: M&B Printing Inc., 1994), 299.
