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James Murrell Shackelford (Hopkins County, KY, attorney, colonel 25th Inf, 8th Ky Cav, and brig gen. in 1863)

b. 1827-07-07 d. 1909-09-07

Hopkins County, Kentucky, attorney and soldier. Danville, Kentucky, native. Son of Edmund Shackelford and Susan Thompson Shackelford. Married to Marion Ross Shackelford in Union County, Kentucky, in November 1850. Father of Emma Shackelford, Addison Shackelford, Ross Shackelford, and Nora Shackelford. Married to Henrietta Shackelford. Attorney in Hopkins County in 1860. Served in the 4th Kentucky Volunteer Infantry Regiment as a second lieutenant and first lieutenant in the U.S.-Mexico War. Attorney in Louisville. Served in the 25th Kentucky Volunteer Infantry Regiment (U.S.A.) as a colonel from January 1, 1862, to March 24, 1862. Served in the 8th Kentucky Volunteer Cavalry Regiment (U.S.A.) as a colonel from September 13, 1862 to January 2, 1863. Appointed brigadier general of Volunteers on January 2, 1863. Commanded forces that captured General John Hunt Morgan at Salineville, Ohio, on July 26, 1863. Resigned his commission on January 18, 1864.

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White

Bibliography

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Hopkins County, p. 813.

Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Indiana, Vanderburgh County, Evansville Ward 2, p. 180B.

Kentucky Marriage Records, Madison County Courthouse, Richmond, Kentucky, Union County Marriages, Film 000562200.

Michigan Death Certificates, 1897-1920, Michigan Department of Community Health, Division for Vital Records and Health Statistics, Lansing, MI, File 633.

"Shackelford, James M.," Appleton's Cyclopædia of American Biography, vol. 5, eds. John Fiske and James Grant Wilson (New York: Appleton, 1889), 479.

Spencer C. Tucker, "James Murrell Shackelford" in American Civil War: The Definitive Encyclopedia and Document Collection, eds. Spencer C. Tucker, James Arnold, Roberta Weiner, and Paul G. Pierpaoli, Jr. (Oxford: ABC-CLIO, 2013), 1749-50.

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Shackelford, James Murrell. Accessed via the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, https://discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/S32210111 (November 12, 2026).

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