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Confederate (CSV)

Private

Samuel L. Kelley

(? - 1864)

Home State: Louisiana

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 5th Louisiana Infantry

Before Sharpsburg

He enlisted in New Orleans on 10 May 1861 and mustered as a Private in Company A, 5th Louisiana Infantry at Camp Moore near Tangipahoa, LA on 1 September.

On the Campaign

He was sent to a hospital in Frederick, MD by 12 September, sick, left behind, and captured there.

The rest of the War

He was in US Army General Hospital #1 in Frederick, MD to 18 September then at Fort McHenry in Baltimore and was a prisoner there to 11 October 1862, when he was paroled and sent to Fortress Monroe, VA for exchange. He was in a hospital in Richmond, VA to at least 10 November 1862, furloughed home, and back in the hospital in January 1863. He returned to duty in about February 1863. He was killed in action at Monocacy, MD on 9 July 1863.

References & notes

His service from his Compiled Service Records,1 online from fold3, also as Samuel L Kelly. He's also on the Confederates In Frederick List.2

Death

07/09/1864; Monocacy, MD

Notes

1 US War Department, Compiled Service Records of Confederate Soldiers, Record Group No. 109 (War Department Collection of Confederate Records), Washington DC: US National Archives and Records Administration (NARA), 1903-1927 [AotW citation 34818]

2 National Museum of Civil War Medicine, Confederates In Frederick List , Published 2026, first accessed 28 March 2026, <https://www.civilwarmed.org/explore/primary-sources/databases/confederates-in-frederick-list/>, Source page: #116 [AotW citation 34819]

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