Henry Gassaway Kennett
Born	August 29, 1835 Cincinnati, Ohio
Died	January 6, 1895 Cincinnati, Ohio
Buried	Spring Grove Cemetery in Cincinnati, Ohio
Allegiance	United States Union
Service / branch	United States Army Union Army
Rank	Bvt. Brigadier General
Unit	79th Ohio Infantry Regiment
Battles / wars	American Civil War
Other work	Ohio House of Representative

Henry Gassaway Kennett (August 29, 1835 – January 6, 1895) was an American politician and lawyer who served as a Union brevet brigadier general during the period of the American Civil War.

Kennett began the war serving a lieutenant colonel for the 27th Ohio. He later served as a colonel of the 79th Ohio Infantry Regiment and led this regiment in Tennessee. Kennett resigned from the Union army on August 1, 1864. He was later named a brevet brigadier general with a promotion date of March 13, 1865. After the war, Kennett served as a member of the Ohio House of Representatives. He died in 1895, in Cincinnati.^[1][2]

His father Colonel John Kennett, who was born in St. Petersburg, Russia, had attended Harvard College, and had co-owned a large tobacco company in Cincinnati, before leading the 4th Ohio Cavalry Regiment from 1861 until 1863.^[3]

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