Civil War Soldier with the Iowa 17th Infantry Regiment.
Henry M. Kenderdine (aka: Harry Miller Kenderdine) m. Caroline Elizabeth Tobie, daughter of Peter and Elizabeth (nee Glatt) Tobie abt 1873.
Children of Harry M. Kenderdine and Caroline E. Tobie are Elizabeth, George L., Julia V. and Karl K. Kenderdine.
Henry M. Kenderdine was born in Philadelphia. Receiving his early education at Ereildoun and Londongrove, he went West in 1857, at the age of 13, where his family had moved to Iowa, on the Missouri border, the year before.
As Civil War hostilities continued to esculate, in 1862, Henry enlisted in the Union Army, First Iowa Cavalry at the age of seventeen. The First Iowa having recruited over 200 men above its requirement, with the excess started the Seventeenth Iowa Infantry, Henry being in the transfer. Going at once to the front, he served as a private 11 months, when he was promoted to Full 1st Lieutenant on 28 Jul 1863. In Jul 1865 he was promoted to Captain, then to Major, commanding the Regiment before he was 19 years old. Henry was in the campaign around Corinth; at the siege of Vicksburg; with Sherman at Chattanooga, and with him "Through Georgia to the Sea;" through the Carolinas, thence to Washington and Louisville, Kentucky; at which place he was mustered out of military service on 25 Jul 1865. Henry was wounded three times – at Iuka, Jackson and Vicksburg – at which in the assault on Fort Hill, he got a shell wound from which he barely missed amputation of his right leg.
Henry M. Kenderdine (aka: Harry Miller Kenderdine) m. Caroline Elizabeth Tobie, daughter of Peter and Elizabeth (nee Glatt) Tobie abt 1873.
Children of Harry M. Kenderdine and Caroline E. Tobie are Elizabeth, George L., Julia V. and Karl K. Kenderdine.
Henry M. Kenderdine was born in Philadelphia. Receiving his early education at Ereildoun and Londongrove, he went West in 1857, at the age of 13, where his family had moved to Iowa, on the Missouri border, the year before.
As Civil War hostilities continued to esculate, in 1862, Henry enlisted in the Union Army, First Iowa Cavalry at the age of seventeen. The First Iowa having recruited over 200 men above its requirement, with the excess started the Seventeenth Iowa Infantry, Henry being in the transfer. Going at once to the front, he served as a private 11 months, when he was promoted to Full 1st Lieutenant on 28 Jul 1863. In Jul 1865 he was promoted to Captain, then to Major, commanding the Regiment before he was 19 years old. Henry was in the campaign around Corinth; at the siege of Vicksburg; with Sherman at Chattanooga, and with him "Through Georgia to the Sea;" through the Carolinas, thence to Washington and Louisville, Kentucky; at which place he was mustered out of military service on 25 Jul 1865. Henry was wounded three times – at Iuka, Jackson and Vicksburg – at which in the assault on Fort Hill, he got a shell wound from which he barely missed amputation of his right leg.
Civil War Soldier with the Iowa 17th Infantry Regiment.
Henry M. Kenderdine (aka: Harry Miller Kenderdine) m. Caroline Elizabeth Tobie, daughter of Peter and Elizabeth (nee Glatt) Tobie abt 1873.
Children of Harry M. Kenderdine and Caroline E. Tobie are Elizabeth, George L., Julia V. and Karl K. Kenderdine.
Henry M. Kenderdine was born in Philadelphia. Receiving his early education at Ereildoun and Londongrove, he went West in 1857, at the age of 13, where his family had moved to Iowa, on the Missouri border, the year before.
As Civil War hostilities continued to esculate, in 1862, Henry enlisted in the Union Army, First Iowa Cavalry at the age of seventeen. The First Iowa having recruited over 200 men above its requirement, with the excess started the Seventeenth Iowa Infantry, Henry being in the transfer. Going at once to the front, he served as a private 11 months, when he was promoted to Full 1st Lieutenant on 28 Jul 1863. In Jul 1865 he was promoted to Captain, then to Major, commanding the Regiment before he was 19 years old. Henry was in the campaign around Corinth; at the siege of Vicksburg; with Sherman at Chattanooga, and with him "Through Georgia to the Sea;" through the Carolinas, thence to Washington and Louisville, Kentucky; at which place he was mustered out of military service on 25 Jul 1865. Henry was wounded three times – at Iuka, Jackson and Vicksburg – at which in the assault on Fort Hill, he got a shell wound from which he barely missed amputation of his right leg.
Henry M. Kenderdine (aka: Harry Miller Kenderdine) m. Caroline Elizabeth Tobie, daughter of Peter and Elizabeth (nee Glatt) Tobie abt 1873.
Children of Harry M. Kenderdine and Caroline E. Tobie are Elizabeth, George L., Julia V. and Karl K. Kenderdine.
Henry M. Kenderdine was born in Philadelphia. Receiving his early education at Ereildoun and Londongrove, he went West in 1857, at the age of 13, where his family had moved to Iowa, on the Missouri border, the year before.
As Civil War hostilities continued to esculate, in 1862, Henry enlisted in the Union Army, First Iowa Cavalry at the age of seventeen. The First Iowa having recruited over 200 men above its requirement, with the excess started the Seventeenth Iowa Infantry, Henry being in the transfer. Going at once to the front, he served as a private 11 months, when he was promoted to Full 1st Lieutenant on 28 Jul 1863. In Jul 1865 he was promoted to Captain, then to Major, commanding the Regiment before he was 19 years old. Henry was in the campaign around Corinth; at the siege of Vicksburg; with Sherman at Chattanooga, and with him "Through Georgia to the Sea;" through the Carolinas, thence to Washington and Louisville, Kentucky; at which place he was mustered out of military service on 25 Jul 1865. Henry was wounded three times – at Iuka, Jackson and Vicksburg – at which in the assault on Fort Hill, he got a shell wound from which he barely missed amputation of his right leg.
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