John Walter Kelley

In 1860 he was an unmarried 18 year old farm hand at Weobulga in Randolph County, AL. He enlisted on 4 September 1861 at Eastville, AL and mustered as a Private in Company E of the 13th Alabama Infantry.

He was with his company in action at Turner's Gap on South Mountain on 14 September and was wounded by a gunshot (or piece of shell) to his right elbow at Sharpsburg on 17 September 1862.

He was admitted to a hospital in Richmond, VA on 28 September and returned to his company on 14 October. He was back in a hospital in December 1862, his foot injured by a wagon. He was with his company to the end of the war and was surrendered and paroled at Appomattox Court House, VA on 9 April 1865.

By 1870 he was a farmer at Wehaga in Cleburne County, AL and in 1880 was farming in Blount County. He was still farming, at Pinnacle in Cullman County, AL in 1894 and was there to at least 1900. He had moved to Jefferson County, AL by 1909.

His service from his Compiled Service Records1 online from fold3, and from the Alabama Archives.2 Personal details from family genealogists, the US Census of 1860-1900, and his Alabama Confederate pension applications of March 1894 and later, online from the FamilySearch database. His gravesite is on Findagrave.

12/09/1841; Talladega County, AL

07/31/1916; Cullman County, AL; burial in Flint Creek Baptist Church Cemetery, Vinemont, AL