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(c. 1838 - 1899)
Home State: Indiana
Branch of Service: Infantry
Unit: 14th Indiana Infantry
Before Antietam
Born in Canada of Irish parents, he gave his home as Monroe County, IN when he enlisted and mustered on 7 June 1861 as a Private in Company K, 14th Indiana Infantry.
On the Campaign
He was wounded in the neck and face in action at Antietam on 17 September 1862.
The rest of the War
He was discharged for disability on 4 April 1863 and began receiving a US pension in June 1863.
After the War
He enlisted again, as a Private in Company A of the 18th United States Infantry in Cleveland, OH on 24 November 1865 and mustered out at the end of his enlistment on 24 November 1868 at Ft. D.A. Russell in Wyoming Territory.
By 1880 he was a farmer in Randolph County, IL.
References & notes
His service from the Adjutant General1 and the Registers.2 Wound detail from Nelson.3 Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1880. His gravesite is on Findagrave; his stone has him as Edward Kelley.
He married Mary Elizabeth Holcomb (1838-1915) in about 1868 and they had 4 children between 1870 and 1882.
Birth
c. 1838; Perth, Ontario, CANADA
Death
04/13/1899; Randolph County, IL; burial in Preston Cemetery, Preston, IL
1 State of Indiana, Adjutant General's Office, and William H.H. Terrell, Adjutant General, Report of the Adjutant General of the State of Indiana, 8 volumes, Indianapolis: (various) State Printers, 1865-1869, Vol. 4, p. 289 [AotW citation 33347]
2 US Army, Registers of Enlistments in the United States Army, 1798-1914, Washington, DC: National Archives, 1956, Vol. 59, p. 335 [AotW citation 33522]
3 Nelson, John H., As Grain Falls Before the Reaper: The Federal Hospital Sites and Identified Federal Casualties at Antietam, Hagerstown: John H. Nelson, 2004, p. 270 [AotW citation 33521]