CONFEDERATE BIOGRAPHY:  Thomas Keely - Galveston, TX

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TEXANS WHO WORE THE GRAY by Sid S. Johnson, page 191 

THOMAS KEELY.

Thomas Keely joined the 8th Texas Infantry at Galves­ton, in 1864, at 
the age of fifteen years, and performed the duties of a Confederate 
soldier until the close of the war in 1865.  He was in the campaigns 
of his regiment, and noted as a gallant boy soldier. Young Keeley 
was born in the City of Mexico on October 9, 1848.  He received an 
honorable discharge and parole at Houston, Texas, on the 26th of 
May, 1865.  When the Spanish-American war was declared, actu­ated by 
the same martial spirit as in the sixties, he joined the American 
army and was faithful to the cause of his country.  After his discharge 
he returned to Galveston, re­maining there until his death, which 
occurred the 17th day of December, 1905.