Francis Dickerson Keen

He enlisted as Satantia, MS and mustered as a Private in Company B, 12th Mississippi Infantry at Corinth, MS on 12 May 1861.

He was (slightly?) wounded in action at Sharpsburg on 17 September 1862.

He was wounded again, by a gunshot at Fredericksburg, VA on 13 December 1862, and afterward in hospitals and on furlough. He was captured near Fredericksburg on 3 May 1863, sent to Washington, DC, then on to City Point, VA for exchange on 10 May. He was on wounded furlough to at least February 1864. He was then listed as absent without leave but was back with his Company by August 1864. He was surrendered and paroled at Appomattox Court House, VA on 9 April 1865.

By 1870 he was a farmer at Yazoo City in Yazoo County, MS.

His service from his Compiled Military Service Records,1 online from fold3, as Francis D Kean and Frank Keene. His Sharpsburg wound on a casualty list in the New Orleans Times-Picayune of 29 October 1862, as F. King. Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1870. His gravesite is on Findagrave.

He married Nancy Jane Walls (1844-1937) and they had 9 children between 1865 and 1887.

07/18/1839; Yazoo County, MS

01/24/1891; Yazoo County, MS; burial in Hilderbrand Cemetery, Yazoo County, MS