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Federal (USV)

Private

Edward Kelley

(c. 1840 - ?)

Home State: Massachusetts

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 29th Massachusetts Infantry

Before Antietam

In 1860 he was a 20 year old lithographer/printer in Roxbury, MA. He enlisted on 20 April 1861 and mustered in Boston as a Private in what became Company A, 29th Massachusetts Infantry on 21 May.

On the Campaign

He was wounded by a gunshot to his right leg in action at Antietam on 17 September 1862.

The rest of the War

His leg was amputated and he was treated at the Smoketown Hospital near the battlefield until he was discharged for wounds on 23 March 1863.

References & notes

His service from Soldiers, Sailors and Marines.1 Wound and hospital details from Nelson,2 as Kelly, and his Compiled Service Records,3 online from fold3. Personal details from the US Census of 1860.

Birth

c. 1840; County Cork, IRELAND

Notes

1 Commonwealth of Massachusetts, Adjutant General, Massachusetts Soldiers, Sailors, and Marines in the Civil War, 8 Vols, Norwood (MA): Norwood Press, 1931-35, Vol. 3, p. 281 [AotW citation 29890]

2 Nelson, John H., As Grain Falls Before the Reaper: The Federal Hospital Sites and Identified Federal Casualties at Antietam, Hagerstown: John H. Nelson, 2004, p. 270 [AotW citation 29891]

3 US War Department, Compiled Service Records of Soldiers who served in US Volunteer organizations enlisted for service during the Civil War, Record Group No. 94 (Adjutant General's Office, 1780's-1917), Washington DC: US National Archives and Records Administration (NARA), 1903-1927 [AotW citation 29892]

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