Soldier: William Wallace Kendall
Regiment: 3rd . OVI Company: I
38th. OVI A
Age: 22 Date Entering Service: 6/15/1861
Period of Service: 3rd. Ohio: 3 years 6 days
38th. Ohio: 9 months 4 days
Remarks (When discharged, re-enlisted, wounded, captured, died of disease or killed):
William Kendall entered service on 6/15/1861 assigned to Ohio 3rd Infantry Company I. He was later transferred to the Ohio 38th Company A where he mustered out on 7/10/1865
Battles in which he fought:
Battle of Perrysburg, Kentucky 10/8/1862
Battle of Stone River, Tennessee 12/31/1862 to 1/2/1863
Battle of Hoovers gap, Tennessee 6/23 to 30/1863
Battle of Chickamauga, Georgia 9/19 to 20/1863
Battle of Mission Ridge, Tennessee 11/25/1863
Battle of Kenesaw Mountain, Georgia 6/9 to 30/1864
Battle of Nickajack Creek, Georgia 7/25/1864
Battle of Atlanta, Georgia 7/22/1864
Battle of Utsy Creek, Georgia 8/5 to 6/1864
Battle of Jonesboro, Georgia 8/31/ to 9/1/1864
Other interesting information discovered:
William Wallace Kendall was born on 4/7/1842 in Guernsey County, Ohio. He married Lovina Campbell on 9/25/1864, three children were born of this union. Lovina died in 1872. William’s second marriage was to Mary Smiley in Morrow County, Ohio on 4/28/1877, three children were born of this marriage. Mary died in 1880. William married Emma (maiden name unknown) in 1878, one child was born of this union. William lived in the Mt Gilead, Ohio area. He was living in Oklahoma by 1890. During his lifetime he was employed as a plasterer and as a farmer. William received an invalid’s pension on 2/18/1896. Emma Kendall collect a widow’s pension upon Williams death in 1912.
Date of Death: 1912 Place of burial: Fairlawn Cemetery, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
Adopted By: Donald and Linda Harvey Researcher: Velda L Montgomery