KENNA, BARNETT
Rank and Organization: Quartermaster, U.S. Navy. Born: 1827, England. Accredited
To: Massachusetts. G.O. No.: 45, 31 December 1864.
Citation:
On board the U.S.S. Brooklyn during action against rebel forts and gunboats and with
the ram Tennessee, in Mobile Bay, 5 August 1864. Despite severe damage to his ship and the
loss of several men on board as enemy fire raked her decks from stem to stern Kenna fought
his gun with skill and courage throughout the furious action which resulted in the
surrender of the rebel ram Tennessee and in the damaging and destruction of batteries at
Fort Morgan.
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