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Federal (USV)

Sergeant

George W. Kelly

(c. 1835 - ?)

Home State: Indiana

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 14th Indiana Infantry

Before Antietam

From Monroe County, IN, he enlisted and mustered on 7 June 1861 as a Sergeant in Company K, 14th Indiana Infantry.

On the Campaign

He was wounded in the chest and arm in action at Antietam on 17 September 1862.

The rest of the War

He was discharged for wounds on 26 January 1863 and began receiving a veterans' pension for disability in June 1863.

References & notes

Service basics from the Adjutant General.1 Wound detail from Nelson.2

Birth

c. 1835

Notes

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. 288 [AotW citation 33348]

2 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. 275 [AotW citation 33529]

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