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J. Kelso
(1819 - 1890)
Home State: Pennsylvania
Branch of Service: Infantry
Before Antietam
At age 43 he recruited and organized a company of troops in Shippensburg, PA and enrolled there with them on 4 August 1862. He mustered for 9-months service in Harrisburg on 10 August as Captain of Company D, 130th Pennsylvania Infantry.
On the Campaign
He led his company in Maryland and was slightly wounded in the hand in action at Antietam on 17 September 1862.
The rest of the War
He returned to duty on 15 December 1862 and mustered out with company at the end of their term on 21 May 1863.
After the War
In 1870 he was a stationer in Shippensburg, PA, he began receiving a veteran's pension for disability in 1879, and he was a retired farmer there in 1880.
References & notes
His service basics from Bates1 and the Card File.2 Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1870 & 1880. His gravesite is on Findagrave. His picture from a photograph shared to the Facebook Civil War Faces group by Ethan Spieles; thanks to John Banks for the pointer.
He married Jane Weakley McCormick (1824-1917) in October 1843 and they had 11 children between 1844 and 1865.
Birth
1819; Stoughstown, PA
Death
10/17/1890; Shippensburg, PA; burial in Spring Hill Cemetery, Shippensburg, PA
1 Bates, Samuel Penniman, History of the Pennsylvania Volunteers, 1861-65, Harrisburg: State of Pennsylvania, 1868-1871 [AotW citation 32860]
2 Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Adjutant-General, Pennsylvania Civil War Veterans' Card File, 1861-1866, Published <2005, first accessed 01 July 2005, <http://www.digitalarchives.state.pa.us/archive.asp?view=ArchiveIndexes&ArchiveID=17> [AotW citation 32861]