He was born at Camden, S.C., January 5th, 1840.  While in his ’teens he became a member of the Camden Light Infantry, of which J.B.  Kershaw was Captain; elected First Lieutenant in 1860.  Upon the secession of South Carolina, December 20th, 1860, Captain Kershaw was elected Colonel of the Second South Carolina Volunteers, and Lieutenant Kennedy was chosen Captain of the Camden Volunteers, a company composed of members of the Camden Light Infantry and those who united with them for service in the field.  This company became Company E, Second South Carolina Volunteers, was ordered to Charleston April 8th, 1861, and witnessed from their position on Morris Island the siege of Fort Sumter, April 12th, 1861.  The Second Regiment formed part of the First Brigade, commanded by General M.L.  Bonham, of the Army of the Potomac, as the Confederate Army in Northern Virginia was then called.  In the spring of 1862 the troops who had volunteered for twelve months reorganized for the war, the Second South Carolina Volunteers being, I believe, the first body of men in the army to do so.  At reorganization Captain Kennedy was elected Colonel, in which capacity he served until 1864, when he was promoted to the command of the brigade, which he held until the close of the war.  In 1862 the name of the army was changed to the Army of Northern Virginia, the Federals having called theirs the Army of the Potomac.  The Second was engaged in every battle fought by the army in Virginia, from the first Manassas to Petersburg, except Second Manassas, and was also in battle of Chickamauga, battles around Knoxville, Averysboro, and Bentonville, and surrendered at Greensboro April 27th, 1865.  General Kennedy was in every battle in which his command was engaged, and was wounded six times and struck fifteen times.  He died in Camden, S.C., April 14th, 1896.

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COLONEL R.P.  TODD.

Colonel R.P.  Todd was born in Laurens County, about the year 1838.  Graduated at a literary college (I think the South Carolina), read law, and entered upon the practice of his profession a year or two before the beginning of hostilities.  At the first call by the State for twelve months’ volunteers, Colonel Todd enlisted in the “Laurens Briars,” afterwards Company G, Third South Carolina Regiment, and was elected Captain.  He took his company with him into the Confederate service, and at the reorganization in 1862, was again elected Captain.  Was made Major in 1864 and Lieutenant Colonel in the early part of 1865.  He was in most of the great battles in which the regiment was engaged, and was several times severely wounded.  He surrendered at Greensboro, N.C.

After the war he again took up the practice of law and continued it until his death, which took place several years ago.  He represented his county in the Senate of the State for one term.

Soon after the close of the war he married Miss Mary Farley, sister of General Hugh L. Farley, formerly Adjutant and Inspector General of South Carolina, and of Captain William Farley, one of the riders of General Stuart, and a famous character in John Estin Cook’s historical romances.