John C. Kelton (United States assistant adjutant general)
b. 1828-06-24 d. 1893-06-15
United States assistant adjutant general. Delaware County, Pennsylvania, native. Graduate of the United States Military Academy at West Point, New York, on July 1, 1851. Assistant instructor of infantry tactics at the United States Military Academy at West Point in 1857 and 1859. Chief Purchasing Commissary at St. Louis. Captain and assistant adjutant general of the Department of the West from June 13, 1861, to September 19, 1861. Colonel of the 9th Missouri Volunteer Infantry Regiment (U.S.A.) from September 19, 1861 to March 1, 1862. Assistant adjutant general of the Department of the Missouri from November 24, 1861, to March 11, 1862. Assistant adjutant general of the Department of the Mississippi from March 11, 1862, to July 11, 1862. Major, brevetted lieutenant colonel, colonel, brigadier general, and assistant adjutant general under Major General Halleck.
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William Henry Powell and Edward Shippen, Officers of the Army and Navy (regular) who Served in the Civil War (L. R. Hamersly & Company, 1892), p. 226.
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Kelton, John C.. Accessed via the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, https://discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/S32201555 (November 12, 2026).
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