The son of Joseph & Sarah (Leddick) Keen[e], he emigrated from Germany ca. 1840 but apparently never married. In 1860, he was a shoemaker presumably living in or near York, Pennsylvania, but is not found with certainty in that census.
A Civil War veteran, he served two terms of service:
1. Enlisted at the stated age of thirty-seven in York August 9, 1862, mustered into federal service at Harrisburg August 13 as a private with Co. I, 130th Pennsylvania Infantry, and honorably discharged with his company May 21, 1863. He saw service at the battles of Antietam, Fredericksburg, and Chancellorsville.
2. Enlisted at the stated age of thirty-eight in York March 30, 1864, and mustered into federal service at Harrisburg May 7 as a private with Co. H, 187th Pennsylvania Infantry. Shot in the right rear of the neck in action near Petersburg, Virginia, on June 18, 1864, the ball passed downward through the trapezius muscle and exited to the right of the seventh cervical vertebrae. He was hospitalized at Wolf U.S. Hospital in Alexandria, Virginia, then transferred to the medical facility in York on July 29, 1864. He returned to duty by December 8 and honorably discharged with his company August 3, 1865.
He apparently never married and listed his next of kin as John Keene. He claimed that the ball the wounded him at Petersburg remained in his lungs until he coughed it up on March 12, 1889, a dubious claim given that there was a scar indicating an exit wound, although it could have been a fragment. He died in the York County almshouse from "chronic bronchitis" with "indigestion" a contributing factor.
His death certificate and death notice in the York Gazette spell his surname "Kuehn," but he and his family members all used "Keen" or "Keene."
A Civil War veteran, he served two terms of service:
1. Enlisted at the stated age of thirty-seven in York August 9, 1862, mustered into federal service at Harrisburg August 13 as a private with Co. I, 130th Pennsylvania Infantry, and honorably discharged with his company May 21, 1863. He saw service at the battles of Antietam, Fredericksburg, and Chancellorsville.
2. Enlisted at the stated age of thirty-eight in York March 30, 1864, and mustered into federal service at Harrisburg May 7 as a private with Co. H, 187th Pennsylvania Infantry. Shot in the right rear of the neck in action near Petersburg, Virginia, on June 18, 1864, the ball passed downward through the trapezius muscle and exited to the right of the seventh cervical vertebrae. He was hospitalized at Wolf U.S. Hospital in Alexandria, Virginia, then transferred to the medical facility in York on July 29, 1864. He returned to duty by December 8 and honorably discharged with his company August 3, 1865.
He apparently never married and listed his next of kin as John Keene. He claimed that the ball the wounded him at Petersburg remained in his lungs until he coughed it up on March 12, 1889, a dubious claim given that there was a scar indicating an exit wound, although it could have been a fragment. He died in the York County almshouse from "chronic bronchitis" with "indigestion" a contributing factor.
His death certificate and death notice in the York Gazette spell his surname "Kuehn," but he and his family members all used "Keen" or "Keene."
The son of Joseph & Sarah (Leddick) Keen[e], he emigrated from Germany ca. 1840 but apparently never married. In 1860, he was a shoemaker presumably living in or near York, Pennsylvania, but is not found with certainty in that census.
A Civil War veteran, he served two terms of service:
1. Enlisted at the stated age of thirty-seven in York August 9, 1862, mustered into federal service at Harrisburg August 13 as a private with Co. I, 130th Pennsylvania Infantry, and honorably discharged with his company May 21, 1863. He saw service at the battles of Antietam, Fredericksburg, and Chancellorsville.
2. Enlisted at the stated age of thirty-eight in York March 30, 1864, and mustered into federal service at Harrisburg May 7 as a private with Co. H, 187th Pennsylvania Infantry. Shot in the right rear of the neck in action near Petersburg, Virginia, on June 18, 1864, the ball passed downward through the trapezius muscle and exited to the right of the seventh cervical vertebrae. He was hospitalized at Wolf U.S. Hospital in Alexandria, Virginia, then transferred to the medical facility in York on July 29, 1864. He returned to duty by December 8 and honorably discharged with his company August 3, 1865.
He apparently never married and listed his next of kin as John Keene. He claimed that the ball the wounded him at Petersburg remained in his lungs until he coughed it up on March 12, 1889, a dubious claim given that there was a scar indicating an exit wound, although it could have been a fragment. He died in the York County almshouse from "chronic bronchitis" with "indigestion" a contributing factor.
His death certificate and death notice in the York Gazette spell his surname "Kuehn," but he and his family members all used "Keen" or "Keene."
A Civil War veteran, he served two terms of service:
1. Enlisted at the stated age of thirty-seven in York August 9, 1862, mustered into federal service at Harrisburg August 13 as a private with Co. I, 130th Pennsylvania Infantry, and honorably discharged with his company May 21, 1863. He saw service at the battles of Antietam, Fredericksburg, and Chancellorsville.
2. Enlisted at the stated age of thirty-eight in York March 30, 1864, and mustered into federal service at Harrisburg May 7 as a private with Co. H, 187th Pennsylvania Infantry. Shot in the right rear of the neck in action near Petersburg, Virginia, on June 18, 1864, the ball passed downward through the trapezius muscle and exited to the right of the seventh cervical vertebrae. He was hospitalized at Wolf U.S. Hospital in Alexandria, Virginia, then transferred to the medical facility in York on July 29, 1864. He returned to duty by December 8 and honorably discharged with his company August 3, 1865.
He apparently never married and listed his next of kin as John Keene. He claimed that the ball the wounded him at Petersburg remained in his lungs until he coughed it up on March 12, 1889, a dubious claim given that there was a scar indicating an exit wound, although it could have been a fragment. He died in the York County almshouse from "chronic bronchitis" with "indigestion" a contributing factor.
His death certificate and death notice in the York Gazette spell his surname "Kuehn," but he and his family members all used "Keen" or "Keene."
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