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Confederate (CSV)

Private

Solomon P. Kelley

(1837 - 1866)

Home State: Texas

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 4th Texas Infantry

Before Sharpsburg

He came with his family to Grimes County, TX by 1850. He enlisted there as Private in Company G, 4th Texas Infantry on 19 July 1861. He was sick in Richmond in the Spring and Summer of 1862.

On the Campaign

He was in action with his Company at Fox's Gap on South Mountain on 14 September and was wounded in action at Sharpsburg on 17 September 1862.

The rest of the War

He was with his Company through the war and was paroled at Montgomery, Alabama on 21 May 1865.

References & notes

Service information from Davis 1 and his Compiled Service Records,2 via fold3, also as Sol. P. Kelly. Personal details from family genealogists, at least one of whom has his birth in Grimes County, TX, and the US Census of 1850 and 1860.

Birth

10/08/1837 in GA

Death

06/06/1866; burial in Kelly Family Cemetery, near Apolonia, TX

Notes

1 Davis, Rev. Nicholas A., The Campaign from Texas to Maryland, Houston: Telegraph Book and Job Establishment, 1863, pp. 159 - 161 [AotW citation 1845]

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 26695]

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