Levi Kenkapot is listed as a Notable burial at https://www.cem.va.gov/cems/nchp/citypoint.asp.


Albany native Levi Kenkapot, enlisted in the U.S. Army’s Second New York Heavy Artillery on March 3, 1862, during the Civil War. He was killed June 16, 1864, the second day of the siege of Petersburg, Virginia. Pvt. Kenkapot was a member of the Mohican Nation’s Stockbridge tribe, and wrote about the tribe’s leadership and claim to 600 acres of ancestral land in New York. Pvt. Kenkapot is buried in City Point National Cemetery, where he shares a headstone with E. L. Warren.


*The preceding content is not intended as a comprehensive biography, but it highlights their significance as a result of military or civilian distinction, lasting achievements, or association with impactful national events.


Photo of excerpt from book Acts and Laws of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.

Photo of Civil War deceased at City Point National Cemetery.

LEVI KANKAPOT JR

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