“It is with deep concern that I have to communicate the death of Dr. Kennedy, which took place on the 18th of last month, after an illness of three days, with, yellow fever: he died at Up-Park Camp. . . He received, some days previously to his illness, a notification that he was to return to Europe by the first opportunity. He was, certainly, not one whom I should have thought likely to suffer from the fever; but I fear the great fatigue and responsibility of the charge he lately had, in a climate like this, must prove more or less injurious to an European constitution.
“I most sincerely lament his death; it is a great loss
to the medical department of the army, and to the world. The officers of the
22nd regiment at Stony Hill, to which station he was some time attached, could
not express themselves with greater sorrow, had they known him for years: in
fact, every one who had the pleasure
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