Colonel, Sixth Virginia Regiment Infantry, , 1861.
    Brigadier general, P. A. C. S., November 16, 1861.
   
    Major general, P. A. C. S. (temporary rank), June 1, 1864;
declined.
    Major general, P. A. C. S., July 30,1864.
   

    Died at Washington, D. C., October 8, 1895.
   
    Commands.
   
    Brigade composed of the Third Alabama, the Sixth, Twelfth,
Sixteenth and Forty-first Virginia, and Second (afterward the
Twelfth) North Carolina Regiments Infantry, Anderson's
Division, A. P. Hill's Corps, Army of Northern Virginia.

    Division composed of Wright's Georgia, Weisiger's
Virginia, Saunder's Alabama, Harris' Mississippi and Finegan's
Florida Brigades, Army of Northern Virginia, 1864-1865.

Born: 06/24/1828 in Delaware County, PA Died: 07/15/1893 in Washington, DC USMA: 1851, class rank: 26/42

He was born in Delaware County,Pa. and graduated from the United States Military Academy in 1851. He was appointed to the 6th Infantry, in which he served until the outbreak of the Civil War. He served in various staff positions during the war, with the rank of colonel of Volunteers.

Kelton was appointed to the Adjutant General's Department in April 1865 and was promoted to lieutenant colonel in March 1866. He was appointed as adjutant general of the Division of the Pacific in July 1870, where he remained until September 1885, earning a promotion to colonel in June 1880. In October 1885 he returned to the Adjutant General's Department in Washington, and he was elevated to Adjutant General of the U. S. Army with the rank of brigadier general in June 1889. He retired in June 1892.

After retirement, he was appointed as governor of the Soldier's Home in Washington, where he served until his death in July 1893. He is buried in the cemetery there, now known as the United States Soldiers' And Airmens' Home National Cemetery.