George V. Kelley

George V. Kelley was born in Massillon, Ohio, on March 23, 1843, and died in Denver, Colorado, on November 4, 1905, where he was buried in Riverside Cemetery. He served from April 25, 1861, to August 18, 1861, as a member of Company E, 13th Ohio Infantry, then mustered into Company A, 104th Ohio Infantry, on July 23, 1862, and became a company commander on August 23, 1862. During the war he served in 18 engagements and received his medal on February 13, 1865, for his action at the Battle of Franklin, Tennessee, on November 30, 1864, where he captured a flag supposed to be of Cheatham's Corps, C.S.A. He mustered out on June 17, 1865, and several years after the war re-entered the Army and fought in several Indian campaigns.

Massillon, Ohio · United States