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Federal (USV)

Private

Thomas Kelly

(c. 1825 - 1904)

Home State: New York

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 69th New York Infantry

Before Antietam

Age 36, a married tailor, he enlisted in New York City to serve three years and mustered as a Private in Company F, 69th New York Infantry on 5 October 1861.

On the Campaign

He was severely wounded in the left arm in action at Antietam on 17 September 1862.

The rest of the War

His left arm was amputated in the upper third of the humerus bone (near the shoulder) on 19 September, and he was admitted to US Army General Hospital #5 in Frederick, MD on 26 September. He was discharged for disability there on 15 December 1862.

After the War

He was admitted to the US National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers in Dayton, OH on 25 September 1869 and discharged in October 1870. He was readmitted in March 1875, discharged again in December, and back in the Home in February 1876. He was discharged for the last time in August 1877 and returned to Ireland sometime afterward. He was living in Dublin in 1899.

References & notes

His service from the State of New York.1 Wound detail from McLernon,2 citing the MSHWR.3 Hospital detail from the Patient List.4 His time in the Soldier's Home from the Registers.5 Further details from research in his pension file kindly shared by Damian Shiels.

Notes

1 State of New York, Adjutant-General, Annual Report of the Adjutant-General of the State of New York for the [year]: Registers of the [units numbers], 43 vols., Albany: Comstock & Cassidy, Printers, 1893-1905, For the Year 1901, Ser. No. 28, pg. 175 [AotW citation 18126]

2 McLernon, Robert, Casualty List, 69th New York Volunteer Infantry, Meagher's Irish Brigade, Bloody Lane, Antietam, Maryland, September 17, 1862, Springfield (Va): R. McLernon, 2014, pg. 18 [AotW citation 18127]

3 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. 707 [AotW citation 33973]

4 National Museum of Civil War Medicine, and Terry Reimer, Frederick Patient List, Published 2018, first accessed 17 September 2018, <http://www.civilwarmed.org/explore/primary-sources/databases/frederickpatient/>, Source page: patient #385 [AotW citation 33972]

5 US Department of Veterans Affairs, Registers of the United States National Homes for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers 1866-1938, Washington, DC: US National Archives and Records Administration, 1938, registration #1846 [AotW citation 33975]

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