Isaac D. Kenyon

Born in Rhode Island, Isaac Dennison Kenyon (1831-1864) was working as a clerk and postmaster in Voluntown, Connecticut at the outset of the war. He enlisted as a 1^st Lieutenant in the 21^st Connecticut Infantry in August, 1862 and married Carrie J. Freeman on September 9^th prior to mustering in to Company G. Kenyon distinguished himself at the Battle of Fredericksburg in December and was promoted to Captain of Company B in June of 1863. He led Company B in the Battles of Drewry’s Bluff and Cold Harbor, as well as during the Siege of Petersburg where he was mortally wounded on August 18^th. He died at a Base Hospital in Point of Rocks, Virginia on September 1^st and was buried in the Kenyon family lot in Richmond, Rhode Island.

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