John Wesley Keller

In 1860 he was a 17 year old farmer on his family's small place at Rockdale in Randolph County, AL. He enlisted as a substitute for his father John, late of Company E, on 13 March 1862 at Yorktown, VA and mustered as a Private in Company E of the 13th Alabama Infantry. He transferred to Company D on 1 July 1862.

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

He was captured at Gettysburg, PA on 3 July 1863. He was a prisoner at Fort Delaware from 6 July 1863 to 14 June 1865 when he took an oath of allegiance to the United States and was released.

By 1880 he was a farmer in Lampasas County, TX and by 1900 was farming in Guadalupe County, TX. In 1910 he was retired and living in Jefferson County, TX.

His service from his Compiled Service Records1 online from fold3, and from the Alabama Archives.2 Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1860, 1880-1910.

He married Sarah Ann Wright (1840-1905) in July 1871 in Alabama and they had 6 daughters, then a son.

His brother Robert, also in Company D, was killed on South Mountain.

c. 1842 in AL

10/16/1915; Beaumont, TX