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Federal (USV)

Private

John Kelly

(c. 1829 - 1862)

Home State: New York

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 82nd New York Infantry (2nd Militia)

Before Antietam

He was 33 years old when he enlisted at New York City. He mustered as Private, Company F, 82nd New York Infantry on 5 September 1862.

On the Campaign

He was killed less than two weeks later in action at Antietam on 17 September 1862.

References & notes

Basic information from the Antietam Cemetery History1. Service data from State of New York2.

Birth

c. 1829

Death

09/17/1862; Sharpsburg, MD; burial in Antietam National Cemetery, Sharpsburg, MD

Notes

1 Antietam National Cemetery, Board of Trustees, History of Antietam National Cemetery, Baltimore: John W. Woods, Steam Printer, 1869 [AotW citation 3716]

2 State of New York, Adjutant-General, Annual Report of the Adjutant General of the State of New York [year]: Registers of the [units], 43 Volumes, Albany: James B. Lyon, State Printer, 1893-1905, Issue 30 (for the year 1901), pg. 367 [AotW citation 8376]

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