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Federal (USV)

Lieutenant

Francis M. Kally

(1842 - 1862)

Home State: Indiana

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 14th Indiana Infantry

Before Antietam

In 1860 he was an 18 year old farm worker living with his parents and 7 younger siblings on their farm near Bridgeton in Parke County, IN. He enlisted and mustered on 7 June 1861 as a Corporal in Company A, 14th Indiana Infantry. He was appointed 2nd Lieutenant on 15 March 1862 and promoted to First Lieutenant on 4 May.

On the Campaign

He was wounded in the left leg in action at Antietam on 17 September 1862.

The rest of the War

He was promoted to Captain on 18 October and was killed at Fredericksburg, VA on 13 December 1862.

References & notes

His service from the Adjutant General.1 Wound detail from Nelson.2 Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1860. His memorial is on Findagrave.

He was possibly married by the time of his death, details unknown.

Birth

02/24/1842; Parke County, IN

Death

12/13/1862; Fredericksburg, VA

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. 2, pp. 113, 114. ; Vol. 4, p. 273 [AotW citation 33523]

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. 271 [AotW citation 33524]

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