James B. Shirley, Jr.

Birth Date

c1840

Death Date

1864-06-14

Gender

Race Description

White

Entity Type

Person

Barren County, Kentucky, farmhand and soldier. Green County, Kentucky, native. Son of Thomas W. Shirley and Martha Shirley. Married to Celia Shirley in Green County, Kentucky, on December 28, 1858. Resident of Green County in 1850. Farmhand in Barren County in 1860. Served in the 13th Kentucky Volunteer Infantry Regiment (U.S.A.) as a private and corporal from December 31, 1861 to January 12, 1865. Wounded in battle in Tennessee in November 1863. Killed in action at the Battle of Resaca, Gordon County, Georgia, on May 14, 1864.

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Green County, District 1, p. 98B.
Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Barren County, District 1, p. 776-7.
Case Files of Approved Pension Applications of Widows and Other Dependents of Civil War Veterans, ca. 1861 – ca. 1910, NARA RG 15, Application WC35431.
Compiled Service Records of Volunteer Union Soldiers Who Served in Organizations From the State of Kentucky, NARA RG 94, Microfilm Series M397, Roll 0268.
Report of the Adjutant General of the State of Kentucky, vol. 1, 1861-1866 (Frankfort: Kentucky Yeoman Office, 1866), p. 857.
KYR-0001-003-0014.

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