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Federal (USV)

Private

Lemuel D. Kelley

(c. 1842 - 1876)

Home State: Indiana

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 14th Indiana Infantry

Before Antietam

In 1860 he was an 18 year old farm laborer living with his father, stepmother(?), and 6 siblings on their farm at Mount Pleasant in Martin County, IN. He enlisted and mustered on 7 June 1861 as a Private in Company F, 14th Indiana Infantry.

On the Campaign

He was wounded by a gunshot to his head in action at Antietam on 17 September 1862.

The rest of the War

He was admitted to US Army General Hospital #4 in Frederick, MD on 28 September and sent on to Washington, DC on 28 September 1862. He was discharged on 20 January 1863.

After the War

He began receiving a pension for disability in June 1869.

References & notes

Service basics from the Adjutant General.1 Wound and hospital details from the Patient List.2 Personal details from family genealogists, also as Lemuel A Kelley, and the US Census of 1860. His gravesite is on Findagrave.

He married Rachel Hunt (1841-1919) in February 1864 and they had 4 children.

Birth

c. 1842; Martin County, IN

Death

09/29/1876; Martin County, IN; burial in Brooks Cemetery, Mount Pleasant, IN

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. 282 [AotW citation 33422]

2 National Museum of Civil War Medicine, and Terry Reimer, Frederick Patient List, Published 2018, first accessed 17 September 2018, <http://www.civilwarmed.org/explore/primary-sources/databases/frederickpatient/>, Source page: patient #338 [AotW citation 33423]

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