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Federal (USV)

Private

William Kelly

(? - 1862)

Home State: Maryland

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 2nd Maryland Infantry

Before Antietam

He enlisted and mustered as Private, Company H, 2nd Maryland Infantry on 1 August 1861.

On the Campaign

He was killed in action at Antietam on 17 September 1862 and buried on the field [map].

After the War

He was reinterred in the new Antietam National Cemetery in about 1867.

References & notes

Service information from Wilmer1. His gravesite is on Findagrave.

Death

09/17/1862; Sharpsburg, MD; burial in Antietam National Cemetery, Sharpsburg, MD

Notes

1 Wilmer, L. Allison, and J.H. Jarrett, George H. Vernon, State Commissioners, History and Roster of Maryland Volunteers, War of 1861-5, Baltimore: Press of Guggenheimer, Weil & Co., 1898, pp. 100 - 107 [AotW citation 13023]

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