Samuel W. Shannon

Birth Date

c1838

Gender

Race Description

White

Entity Type

Person

Franklin County, Kentucky, resident and soldier. Kentucky native. Resident of Franklin County, Kentucky, in 1860. Household owned sixteen enslaved persons in Franklin County in 1860. Served in the 4th Kentucky Volunteer Infantry Regiment (C.S.A.) as fourth sergeant from September 13, 1861, to December 16, 1862. Served in Byrne's Battery as sergeant from December 17, 1861. Captured at Jackson County, West Virginia, on July 19, 1863. Held at Camp Douglas, Cook County, Illinois.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Franklin County, Frankfort, p. 277.
Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Franklin County, Frankfort, p. 492B.
Compiled Service Records of Confederate Soldiers Who Served in Organizations from the State of Kentucky, NARA RG 109, Microfilm Series M319, Roll 0074.
Compiled Service Records of Confederate Soldiers Who Served in Organizations from the State of Kentucky, NARA RG 109, Microfilm Series M319, Roll 0103.
Report of the Adjutant General of the State of Kentucky: Confederate Kentucky Volunteers War 1861-65, vol. I (Frankfort: Legislature of Kentucky, 1915), pp. 166-167.
Ed Porter Thompson, History of the Orphan Brigade (Louisville, KY): Lewis N. Thompson, 1898), p. 653.

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