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Federal (USV)

Private

Joseph Kellit

(c. 1840 - ?)

Home State: New York

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 42nd New York Infantry

Before Antietam

Age 21, he enlisted at Great Neck, NY, and mustered in as a Private in Company B, 42nd New York Infantry on 22 June 1861.

On the Campaign

He was wounded in his left chest in action at Antietam on 17 September 1862.

The rest of the War

He was treated in a field hospital on the Susan Hoffman farm at Sharpsburg and discharged for disability in Philadelphia, PA on 4 February 1863.

References & notes

His service from the State of New York,1 which does not mention his wounding; also as Joseph Killit. Wound and hospital details from Nelson,2 as Jos. Kelly. His wounding at Antietam also on a casualty list in the New York Daily Herald of 25 September 1862, as Joseph Kellett.

Birth

c. 1840

Notes

1 State of New York, Adjutant-General, Annual Report of the Adjutant General of the State of New York [year]: Registers of the [units], 43 Volumes, Albany: James B. Lyon, State Printer, 1893-1905, For the Year 1900, Ser. No. 23, p. 988 [AotW citation 30141]

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. 271 [AotW citation 30142]

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