History of Pittsburgh and environs, from prehistoric days to the beginning of the American revolution .. . In the year1839 Judge McKennas father was elected by the peopleto be city and county overseer of the poor, an office ofimportance. Judge Charles F. McKenna was born in Pittsburgh,Pa., Oct. I, 184s, and lost his father before he was oneyear old. The public and private day and night schoolsof his native city provided him with his early education,and in them he was an assiduous scholar. In his four-teenth year, having exhibited marked talent for freehand sketching, he was apprenticed to lear
History of Pittsburgh and environs, from prehistoric days to the beginning of the American revolution .. . In the year1839 Judge McKennas father was elected by the peopleto be city and county overseer of the poor, an office ofimportance. Judge Charles F. McKenna was born in Pittsburgh,Pa., Oct. I, 184s, and lost his father before he was oneyear old. The public and private day and night schoolsof his native city provided him with his early education,and in them he was an assiduous scholar. In his four-teenth year, having exhibited marked talent for freehand sketching, he was apprenticed to learn the litho-graphers profession, and his success as an engraver andan artist was of undoubted quality, as shown by speci-mens still preserved, but when the call of President Lin-coln for more Union soldiers came, in July, 1862, youngMcKenna enlisted as a private in Company E, One Hun-dred and Fifty-fifth Regiment, Pennsylvania Volunteers,then being recruited from the city of Pittsburgh. JudgeMcKenna enlisted at the early age of sixteen. The regi-ment in which he enlisted saw some of the hottest fight-. BIOGRAPHICAL 127 ing of the entire war. His regiment was assigned toHumphreys division, becoming a part of the renownedFifth Corps, Army of the Potomac, and in less thanthree weeks from the time of enlistment, Judge Mc-Kenna was at the battlefield at Antietam. During thethree years that followed, until the close of the war,young McKenna had taken an active part with his regi-ment in famous battles as follows, all of which battlesare inscribed on the Regimental Colors by official orderof General Grant, Antietam, Fredericksburg, Chancellors-ville, Gettysburg, the Wilderness, Cold Harbor, Peters-burg, Five Forks, and Appomattox. There were manyother Pittsburghers who participated in these battles andwho later gained distinction in professional and financialworks in Pittsburgh. In camp life Judge McKenna re-sumed, in long winter quarters, his studies, having forhis teacher Sergeant G
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