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Federal (USV)

Private

James O. Keyes

(c. 1842 - 1862)

Home State: Wisconsin

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 6th Wisconsin Infantry

Before Antietam

In 1860 he was a 19 year old living with his parents and 5 siblings on the family farm at West Point in Columbia County, WI. He enlisted in Baraboo, WI on 16 June 1861 and mustered in Madison as a Private in Company A, 6th Wisconsin Infantry on 16 July.

On the Campaign

He was killed in action on 17 September 1862.

References & notes

His service from the State of Wisconsin1 and his Compiled Service Records (CSRs).2 A casualty list in the Philadelphia Inquirer of 20 September 1862 says he was wounded at Antietam, probably in error. Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1860. Thanks to Kathy Steckelberg for sharing her research in Grant's CSRs.

Birth

c. 1842 in NY

Death

09/17/1862; Sharpsburg, MD

Notes

1 State of Wisconsin, Adjutant General's Office, and Chandler P. Chapman, Adj. Gen., Roster of Wisconsin Volunteers, War of the Rebellion, 1861-1865, 2 volumes, Madison: Democrat Printing Co., State Printers, 1886, Vol. 1, pp. 498 - 500 [AotW citation 10276]

2 US War Department, Compiled Service Records of Soldiers who served in US Volunteer organizations enlisted for service during the Civil War, Record Group No. 94 (Adjutant General's Office, 1780's-1917), Washington DC: US National Archives and Records Administration (NARA), 1903-1927 [AotW citation 31219]

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