This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: KEMP Classification: Military Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/EZm.2ACIB/1614 Message Board Post: Source: http://www.army.mil/cmh/Default.htm Note: This is not my ancestry. I have NO additional information. I am just passing along information that may be useful. KEMP, JOSEPH Rank and organization: First Sergeant, Company D, 5th Michigan Infantry. Place and date: At Wilderness, Va., 6 May 1864. Entered service at: Sault Ste. Marie, Mich. Birth: Lima, Ohio. Date of issue: 1 December 1864. Citation: Capture of flag of 31st North Carolina (C.S.A.) in a personal encounter.