Louis Kentana (1842-1927). Private, 67th New York Infantry, Company G; 65th New York Infantry, Company B. Kentana, a Brooklynite by birth, enlisted there on July 30, 1861, and mustered into the 67th New York. His muster roll states that he was detached to the 1st Pennsylvania Artillery from September 1862 through February 1863 at which time he was detailed to pack the mule ammunition train in March and April 1863. He re-enlisted on December 25, 1863, at Brandy Station, Virginia, returned to the 67th and then transfered into the 65th in June 1864. Although his muster roll notes that he was absent without leave on July 20, 1864, and then listed as a deserter on that date, this was an error. His muster roll, for December 31, 1864, states that he was hospitalized for six months with 'confirmed excitability and palpitation of the heart'. He returns to the rolls in January 1865 an further muster rolls note that the desertion was changed to absent/sick. Kentana was discharged with his company on July 17, 1865, at Hall's Hill, Virginia. At the time of discharge, he was 5'5" tall with brown eyes, light hair, light complexion and employed as a laborer. According to his 1880 application for an invalid pension, he was wounded by a shell about four inches above the knee at the Battle of Malvern Hill, on July 1, 1862, and was treated by the regiment surgeon. In addition, he stated that he suffered a gunshot wound in the right thumb at the Battle of the Wilderness, Virginia, in May 1864, and was treated at the Howard General Hospital in Washington, D.C., for about two months. However, a document from the Adjutant General's Office of the War Department, dated January 10, 1882, states that there is no record of the 'alleged' wounds. Although there is an apparent controversy about the wounds, he was awarded an invalid pension, certificate 352,564, a number that is recorded in subsequent declaration for an invalid pension dated 1890. In 1912, Kentana's communication related to his invalid pension notes that his honorable discharge from the 67th New York was lost as the Battle of the Wilderness and that the 67th was consolidated into the 65th New York at a later date. According to his death certificate and his obituary in the Brooklyn Standard Union, he was a retired tinsmith. He last lived at 755 39th Street in Brooklyn. Shortly after his death in 1927, Emma Kentana, applied for and was awarded a widow's pension of $30 a month, certificate 1,567,612.
Louis Kentana is buried in Green-wood Cemetery, Brooklyn NY (Section 135, Lot 27263)
Louis Kentana (1842-1927) served in the Civil War, from 1861 until 1865, as a private in the 65th and 67th New York Infantries. During his service, he was hospitalized for six months with confirmed excitability and palpitation of the heart. According to his 1880 application for an invalid pension, he was wounded by a shell about four inches above the knee at the Battle of Malvern Hill, Virginia, on July 1, 1862, and was treated by the regimental surgeon. In addition, he stated that he suffered a gunshot wound in the right thumb at the Battle of The Wilderness, Virginia, in May 1864, and was confined to a hospital in Washington, D.C., for about two months. Years later, he was awarded an invalid pension. He lies in an unmarked grave.
Reference Marktheirgraves.org
KINTINO, LEWIS: Age, 18 years. Enlisted, July 30, 1861, at Brooklyn, to serve three years; mustered in as private, Co. G, August 31, 1861; re-enlisted as a veteran, December 25, 1863; transferred to Co. D, June 19, 1864; to Co. B, July 4. 1864; to Co. B, Sixty-fifth Infantry, September 1, 1864; also borne as Kintanno. (Reference: ANNUAL REPORT OF THE ADJUTANT-GENERAL OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK)
