Lieutenant Colonel Ronald A. Kennedy

Lieutenant Colonel Ronald A. Kennedy of the 5th Vermont Infantry, 2nd Brigade, 2nd Division (Getty), Sixth Corps, a resident of Concord, Vermont, enlisted on June 18, 1861. On April 2, 1865, Kennedy and his men passed this spot during their attack. He recalled that about 5 a.m., at the signal from Fort Fisher, they began the charge, passed through the enemy’s pickets, took most of them prisoner, pushed on to the main works through two lines of abatis, and soon took the work in their front, almost directly west of Fort Welch, along with four pieces of artillery. Kennedy survived the assault and was mustered out of service in June 1865.

Virginia · United States