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Federal (USV)

Corporal

William G. Kelly

(c. 1827 - ?)

Home State: Rhode Island

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 4th Rhode Island Infantry

Before Antietam

About age 34, from Woonsocket, he enlisted on 19 September 1861 in Company E, 4th Rhode Island Infantry. He was promoted to Corporal on 9 December 1861.

On the Campaign

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

The rest of the War

Surgeons could not control his bleeding and Surgeon Charles W. Jones, USV, at the Newton University Hospital in Baltimore resorted to amputating his forearm in the upper third on 26 September. Kelly was discharged for disability at Newton on 29 November 1862.

References & notes

His service basics from Dyer.1 Wound and treatment details from the MSHWR.2

Birth

c. 1827

Notes

1 Dyer, Elisha, Annual Report of the Adjutant General of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations for the Year 1865 (corrected), 2 Volumes, Providence: E.L. Freeman & Son, 1893, Vol. 1, pp. 277 - 286 [AotW citation 14067]

2 Barnes, Joseph K., and US Army, Office of the Surgeon General, The Medical and Surgical History of the War of the Rebellion, 6 books, Washington DC: US Government Printing Office, 1870-1883, Volume 2, Part 2, p. 471 [AotW citation 32108]

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