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Confederate (CSV)

Private

William H. Kelly

(c. 1841 - 1862)

Home State: Georgia

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 24th Georgia Infantry

Before Sharpsburg

Son of a Baptist preacher, in 1860 he was a 19 year old day laborer living with his parents and 7 siblings at Clarksville in Habersham County, GA. He enlisted on 24 August 1861 and mustered as a Private in Company H, 24th Georgia Infantry.

On the Campaign

He was mortally wounded by a gunshot to his right foot and captured in action at Sharpsburg on 17 September 1862.

The rest of the War

He was treated at the City Hotel Hospital in Frederick, MD until 16 October, then sent to Aiken's Landing, VA and exchanged there on 19 October. He was then in Chimborazo Hospital, Richmond, VA until 15 November when he was furloughed home. He died there on 9 December 1862.

His father William filed a claim for his final pay of $128.07 in March 1863.

References & notes

His service from the Roster 1 and his Compiled Service Records,2 online from fold3, both also as William H. Kelley. Hospital and wound details from the Patient List.3 Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1860.

Birth

c. 1841; Pickens District, SC

Death

12/09/1862; Habersham County, GA

Notes

1 Henderson, Lilian, compiler, Roster of the Confederate Soldiers of Georgia, 1861-1865, 6 vols., Hapeville (GA): Longino & Porter, 1959-1964 [AotW citation 19480]

2 US War Department, Compiled Service Records of Confederate Soldiers, Record Group No. 109 (War Department Collection of Confederate Records), Washington DC: US National Archives and Records Administration (NARA), 1903-1927 [AotW citation 33640]

3 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 #756 [AotW citation 19481]

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