A classic example of the brother-against-brother feuds resulting from the Civil War began virtually in the shadows of the historic log Doe Creek Church and School. Hugh and Robert Kennedy established farms here early in the 1820s. When the war began, Hugh Kennedy’s son, John G. Kennedy, enlisted in the Confederate army, while his twin sons, David and Isaac Kennedy, joined the Union army. Five of Robert Kennedy’s sons—Robert, Samuel G., Shadrach Hugh, William G., and James D. Kennedy—as well as his sons-in-law, James M. Smith, Bill Nails, and Isham Gurley, served in the Confederate army.
