Lindsay Mayo Shumaker

Home State: Virginia
Command Billet: Division Chief of Artillery
Branch of Service: Artillery
Unit: Jackson's Division Artillery

Before the Antietam Campaign:
He was 2nd Lieutenant of the Virginia First Regiment of Foot in 1846 as it was organized for the Mexican War.1 He was Captain of the Danville Artillery as they entered Confederate service 22 April 1861.2

Notes

1 Walton, William, The Army and Navy of the United States 1776-1891, 2 folio vols., Philadelphia: George Barrie, 1889-1895 [AotW citation 234]

2 Moore, Robert H. II, Danville, Eight[h] Star, New Market, and Dixie Artillery, Appomattox: H. E. Howard, Inc., 1989 [AotW citation 235]

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