This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: DUVERNAY, KEDGNOT, KEDGNAL Classification: Military Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/CIB.2ACI/1216 Message Board Post: >From the book "These Men Have Seen Hard Service", concerning the 1st Michigan Sharpshooters regiment in the Civil War, pp. 21 & 445 "Out of the 1,300 officers and men who would serve in the regiment, at least 41 were under the age of 18. How many more lied about their age will never be known. Two of them were only 13 when they enlisted. William Duvernay, the youngest of the volunteers, came into the regiment as a musician. He and his half-brother, 18-year-old John Kedgnot, enlisted from Grand Haven in December 1862. The two young enlistees were also the first Indians in the Sharpshooters. Both would serve in Company B. (102)..Record of Service, 1st MSS, 31, 52.