Kelley, Benjamin Franklin

Life Span
to
Full name
Benjamin Franklin Kelley
Place of Birth
New Hampton, NH
Burial Place
Arlington National Cemetery, Arlington, VA
Birth Date Certainty
Exact
Death Date Certainty
Exact
Gender
Male
Race
White
Sectional choice
North
Origins
Free State
No. of Spouses
1
Family
Mary Clare Bruce (wife) 
Occupation
Military
Businessman
Other
Relation to Slavery
White non-slaveholder
Government
Grant Administration (1869-77)
Military
Union Army
Date Event
In western forces, Union and Confederate forces fight the first planned engagement of the war at Philippi
A Union winter cavalry raid departs its West Virginia base and marches south to cut communications
At Salem, Virginia, General Averell's Union cavalry raid arrives to destroy rail communications
Date Title
Gen. B. F. Kelley to the People of Hampshire County, Virginia, October 26, 1861
Date Title
John M. Mackenzie to Abraham Lincoln, April 28, 1864, Paducah, Kentucky
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