Dee ihe na-aga n'ihu maka paragraf a - N'ịbanye n'Òtù Ndị Agha Confederate n'April 1861, Kennedy ghọrọ onyeisi nke Company E, 2nd South Carolina Infantry Regiment, n'okpuru onye Camden ibe ya bụ Col. Joseph Brevard Kershaw. N'agha nke mbụ nke Manassas, bọọlụ Minie kụrụ ya ma merụọ ya ahụ nke ukwuu. Mgbe ọ gbakechara, e buliri ya n'ọkwa Colonel mgbe Kershaw buliri ya n'ọkwa Brigadier General. Ihe mbụ Kennedy mere n'ịchị otu ndị agha mere n'otu ọgụ na Nine-Mile Road dị nso na Richmond, Virginia, na June 1862 n'oge Peninsula Campaign. Mgbe ị lụsịrị agha na Savage's Station
N'oge ahụ, ahụ́ ọkụ mere ka ọ ghara inwe ike ịrụ ọrụ ruo ọtụtụ izu. Ọ laghachiri na ndị agha ya n'oge maka Mgbasa Maryland. N'oge Stonewall Jackson na-etinye ego na Harpers Ferry, Kennedy nọ na ndị agha Kershaw na-ejide Maryland Heights dị mkpa. Ọ duru ndị agha ya na Kershaw's counterattack n'oge Agha Antietam, na-akwọ akụkụ nke Union II Corps n'ihu ya. Agbanyeghị, ọ dara merụrụ ahụ nke ukwuu na mbido mbụ, kụrụ ụkwụ ya na akwara Achilles mgbe ọ na-agafe ogige osisi n'akụkụ Hagerstown Pike. N'inwetaghachi onwe ya n'oge maka nnukwu agha, Kennedy duru ndị nke abụọ na nke asatọ South Carolina na nkwado nke General Howell Cobb na Marye's Heights, ebe a na-alụ ọgụ kachasị na Fredericksburg.