William A. McKellip
Name: William A. McKellip
Affiliation: Union
Unit: 6th MD Vol. Inf.
Race: White
Place of Birth/Residence: Westminster, Carroll County, MD
Enlistment Date: 08/12/1862
Company: A
Rank at End of Service: Lieutenant Colonel
Notes:
Entered the service as a Captain; Promoted to Major 9/2/1862; Promoted to Lieutenant Colonel 3/27/1863; Resigned 1863; Member of the GAR; Born in 1835 in Taneytown, Carroll Co., MD; Died 1904
Source(s):
Image from U.S. Army Military History Institute; United States Census Bureau, “1860 Federal Census of Carroll, Co., MD,” [database on-line], Ancestry.com; L. Allison Wilmer, J. H. Jarrett and Geo. W. F. Vernon, History and Roster of Maryland Volunteers, War of 1861-5, Volume 1 (Baltimore: Guggenheimer, Weil, & Co., 1899), 224; National Park Service, Civil War Soldiers and Sailors System, online at http://www.itd.nps.gov/cwss/index.html; U.S. Civil War Soldier Records and Profiles [database on-line], Ancestry.com; Jay A. Graybeal, "Taneytown's Civil War Veterans," Carroll County Times, August 3, 1997; Jay A. Graybeal, "William A. McKellip, Consul to Magdeburg," Carroll County Times, July 28, 1996.
