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Confederate (CSV)

Private

Albert Daniel Kelly

(c. 1841 - 1862)

Home State: Alabama

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 26th Alabama Infantry

Before Sharpsburg

He enlisted as Private, Company A, 26th Alabama Infantry on 3 October 1861.

On the Campaign

He was mortally wounded in action near Turner's Gap on South Mountain, MD on 14 September 1862, and captured nearby.

The rest of the War

He died of wounds in Frederick, MD on 10 October 1862.

After the War

He was originally buried "on west side of and in the [Mt. Olivet] cemetery at Frederick" and probably reinterred at Hagerstown in about 1874.

References & notes

Burial information from Pruett1. His service from Fincham's roster,2 sourced from Tod L. Molsworth's O'Neal's 26th Alabama: the Little Regiment that Did (2000). He has two stones at Mt. Olivet, and may still be there.

Birth

c. 1841; Fayette County, AL

Death

10/09/1862; Frederick, MD; burial in Washington Confederate Cemetery, Hagerstown, MD

Notes

1 Pruett, Samuel, and Poffenberger & Good, Greg Farino and Western Maryland Regional Library (WMRL), Washington Confederate Cemetery, possible burials, Hagerstown (MD): WHILBR, 2010 [AotW citation 4779]

2 Fincham, Jr., Ray, Artillery, Cavalry, Infantry Regimental Histories - Alabama, Published 2005, first accessed 23 August 2020, <https://ranger95.com/civil_war/alabama/index.html>, Source page: /infantry/26ala_inf/26th_ala_inf_roster_a.html [AotW citation 25479]

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