Kenly, John Reese, 1822-1891

found: Library of Congress Manuscript Division for the Papers of William Buel Franklin, 1861-65(John Reese Kenly; b. 1822; d. 1891)

found: WWW famousamericans.net, Mar. 23, 2005(John Reese Kenly; soldier; b. Baltimore, Md., 1822; admitted to the bar, 1845; joined U.S. Army; participated in the Mexican war, U.S. Civil War; brigadier-general, 22 August 1862; brevetted brigadier-general, 13 March, 1865; after war a lawyer and wrote "Memoirs of a Maryland Volunteer," 1873)

found: Wikipedia, November 20, 2019(John Reese Kenly; John Reese Kenly (January 11, 1818--December 20, 1891) was an American lawyer, and a Union Army general in the American Civil War; Kenly was born in Baltimore, Maryland; he studied law and was admitted to the bar in 1845, but went to the Mexican-American War as a lieutenant with a company of volunteers he had raised; he entered the American Civil War as colonel of the 1st Regiment Maryland Volunteer Infantry organized at Baltimore, Maryland, which was mustered into Union service on May 16, 1861; together with some Pennsylvania companies, it was captured by Stonewall Jackson at Front Royal on the Shenandoah, May 23, 1862; Kenly joined the Army of the Potomac after the Battle of Gettysburg and was assigned to I Corps during the Bristoe Campaign and the Battle of Mine Run, commanding the third division of the corps; afterward, he was assigned to the Middle Department, commanding the Third Separate Brigade in 1864; Kenly died in Baltimore, Maryland is buried there in Green Mount Cemetery)