# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/john-h-kelly
# Generated: 2026-08-14T05:51:49.682Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/john-h-kelly"
name: "John H. Kelly"
slug: "john-h-kelly"
description: "John Herbert Kelly was, at the time of his promotion, the youngest brigadier general in the Confederate States Army. He became one of the youngest generals to die during the American Civil War, at the age of 24. His death occurred during an engagement at Franklin, Tennessee, on September 2, 1864, during Major General Joseph Wheeler's raid into Tennessee in August and early September 1864 in an attempt to destroy the railroad that Union Army Major General William Tecumseh Sherman was using to supply his force from Chattanooga, Tennessee, during the Atlanta campaign."
tagline: "Confederate Army general (184_-1864)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/John_Herbert_Kelly.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
birthDate: "1840-03-31"
deathDate: "1864-09-04"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           40.01
  momentum:             0.4428044280442804
  historical:           5.676854666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  50
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_H._Kelly"
    title: "John H. Kelly"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AC%D9%88%D9%86_%D8%A5%D8%AA%D8%B4_%D9%83%D9%8A%D9%84%D9%8A"
    title: "جون إتش كيلي"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AC%D9%88%D9%86_%D8%A7%D8%AA%D8%B4_%D9%83%D9%8A%D9%84%D9%89"
    title: "جون اتش كيلى"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://vi.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_H._Kelly"
    title: "John H. Kelly"
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  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_H._Kelly"
    title: "John H. Kelly"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_H._Kelly"
    title: "John H. Kelly"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3181660"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump