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While living here his wife died, and a few years afterwards he married Lavinia Elizabeth, the daughter of Dr. William Rook. When the State called her sons to her defense, he answered promptly, and enlisted as First Lieutenant in a company commanded by his uncle, John P. Kinard.
The companies had already organized in the respective counties, and elected officers, and after assembling in Charleston and organizing the regiment, elected the following field officers: Colonel L.M. Keitt. Lieutenant Colonel O.M. Dansler. Major S.M. Boykin. Adjutant John Wilson. Quartermaster John P. Kinard. Commissary Brock. Surgeon Dr. Salley. Assistant Surgeon Dr. Barton. Chaplain Rev.
By his first wife, a daughter, Alice, now the wife of Elbert H. Aull, Esq.; by his second wife, two sons, John M. Kinard, Commandant of the John M. Kinard Camp, Sons of Veterans, and James P. Kinard. Battle of Cedar Creek or Fisher's Hill, 19th October, 1864. After the retreat of the enemy across Cedar Creek, on the 13th, the brigade returned to Fisher's Hill, and encamped in a beautiful grove.
In 1838 his father, General Henry H. Kinard, was elected Sheriff of Newberry County, and moved with his family to the court house town of Newberry. Here Captain Kinard attended school until he was about seventeen years old, when he went to Winnsboro, S.C., to attend the famous Mount Zion Academy.
Company K, Lexington Captain Harmon. Captain Jno. P. Kinard, of Company F, was made Quartermaster, and First Lieutenant Jno. M. Kinard was promoted to Captain. A singularity of one of the companies, I, was that it had twenty-eight members by the name of Gunter.
He was rather of a taciturn bend, and a man of great modesty, but it took only a glimpse at the man to tell of what mould and mettle he was made. I give a short sketch of his life. Captain John Martin Kinard was born July 5, 1833, in the section of Newberry County known as the Dutch Fork, a settlement of German emigrants, lying a few miles west of Pomaria.
W.W. Duncan. Company A, Anderson and Pickens Captain Partlow. Company B, Orangeburg Captain McMichael. Company C, Lexington Captain Leaphart. Company D, Orangeburg Captain Danley. Company E, Laurens Captain Cowen. Company F, Newberry Captain Kinard. Company G, Sumter Captain Moseley. Company H, Orangeburg and Lexington Captain Ruff. Company I, Orangeburg and Lexington Captain Gunter.
This yeare in June, the lord Geffrey the elect of Lincolne the kings sonne besieged the castell which Roger de Mowbry had repaired at Kinard Ferie, within the Isle of Oxholme, and compelling the souldiers within to yéeld, he beat downe and raced the same castell vnto the verie ground.
There were the Rome-folk grievously treated; Howel them attacked, Walwain them met; there was wondrous cry, the welkin resounded; the earth gan to tremble, the stones there shivered! Streams of blood ran from the wretched folk, the slaughter was immense, then were the Britons weary! Kinard, the Earl of Striguil, left the King Howel, and took with him Labius, Rimarc, and Boclovius.
One of the most distinguished looking and fearless officers of the Twentieth South Carolina Regiment was killed here, Captain John M. Kinard. Captain Kinard was one of the finest line officers in the command a good disciplinarian and tactician, and a noblehearted, kind-hearted gentleman of the "Old School."
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