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Kendrick was born in Kentucky.
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Charles Kendrick
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Early in the Civil War, as Third Master in Army gunboat Saint Louis of the Western Flotilla, he took part in the captures of Fort Henry, Fort Donelson, Island Number. 10, Memphis, and Fort Saint Charles. On 1 October 1862, when the Western Flotilla was transferred to the Navy Department, he was commissioned Acting Master in the United States. Navy.
On April 30, 1863, while commanding a landing party which drove Confederate sharpshooters from the river banks at Haines Bluff, he personally captured a Southern officer in hand-to-hand combat.
In July he commanded Petrel when she and Forest Rose ascended the Tensas River and captured Confederate steamers Louisville and Elmira. The following month Acting Master Kendrick was stricken with fever and died at the Naval Hospital, Memphis, Tennessee, August 13, 1863.
The United States Ship Kendrick (Doctor of Divinity-612) was named for him.
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