Military Monday~Pvt. Jacob Nathaniel Kepley

 

Jacob Nathaniel Kepley

Company "K"

57th Regiment N.C. Troop

Enlisted: 5 July 1862

Paroled at Salisbury on May 3, 1865

Summary of Military Service:

KEPLEY, JACOB N., Private
Previously served as Private in Company A of this regiment. Transferred to this company prior to September 2, 1862. Hospitalized at Richmond, Virginia, September 6, 1862, with intermittent fever. Transferred to Salisbury on or about September 19, 1862. Reported absent without leave in November-December, 1862. Reported at home on furlough in January-May, 1863. Returned to duty in May-August, 1863. Reported present on surviving company muster rolls through April 30 1864. Captured at Frederick, Maryland, on or about July 9, 1864. Confined at Old Capitol Prison, Washington, D.C. Transferred to Elmira, New York, July 23, 1864. Paroled at Elmira on October 11, 1864. Received at Venus Point, Savannah River, Georgia, November 15, 1864 for exchange. Reported absent sick from December 1, 1864, through February 28, 1865. Paroled at Salisbury on May 3, 1865."1

 
Not Deserters.--- Corporal C. D. Faris and Private J. N. Kepley, Co. K, 7th Regiment, have called at our office to complain that they have been unjustly advertised by Capt. G. A. J. Suchler, as deserters. They have papers which acquit them of the disgraceful charge, and desire the public to know it.
Mr. Kepley states further, that Sergeant J. A. Klutts, who is also advertised in the same notice, is at the Hospital in Raleigh unfit for duty.
Mr. R. M. Thomason, we are informed, is also unable to perform service, and had been in the Hospital four months.
It is very cruel that honest, good men should be thus needlessly wounded and wronged, and all because some Surgeon neglects to report the extension of furlough.2  

Jacob Nathaniel Kepley was born 25 April 1832, a son of John Peter Kepley and Rachael Simison. Jacob N. Kepley married Delia Loretta Johnson on 26 February 1856 and had two sons before enlisting into the Civil War. After the war, he and his wife would have 6 additional children.

Jacob N. Kepley died on 26 February 1888. His youngest child, a daughter, would celebrate her 4th birthday a month later on 28 March 1888. His wife, Delia Loretta would live an additional 38 years passing away on 21 December 1926 in Rowan County, NC.

Jacob Nathaniel Kepley is my 2nd Cousin 4X Removed.

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[1] Weymouth T. Jordan Editor, BOOK: NORTH CAROLINA TROOPS:1861-1865: A Roster (Raleigh, NC 27699-4622: Historical Publications Section, 1997), PRIVATE JACOB N. KEPLEY, Vol. 14, pages 206-207.

[2] "Not Deserters," War News, Carolina Watchman, Salisbury, NC, 31 August 1863, Page 3, column 2; Digital On-Line Archives, Newspapers.com (https://www.newspapers.com/ : viewed & transcribed 3 April 2022); www.newspapers.com/.

[3] Find A Grave, Inc., Find A Grave, database and digital images, (http://www.findagrave.com : accessed 3 April 2022); Memorial page for Jacob Nathanial Kepley; (25 April 1832–26 February 1888); Find a Grave memorial # 44666400, Citing The Arbor United Methodist Church Cemetery; Salisbury, Rowan County, North Carolina, USA.

[4] 1850 U. S. Census, Rowan County, North Carolina, population schedule, School District 37, Rowan, North Carolina, Page: 229A(Stamped), Line 28, Dwelling 1832, Family 1858, Household of Rachel KEPLEY; online database, Ancestry.com (http://www.ancestry.com : viewed 3 March 2021); citing National Archives Microfilm Publication M432, Roll 643.