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Confederate (CSV)

Private

Elihu Duke Shirley, Jr.

(c. 1842 - 1862)

Home State: South Carolina

Branch of Service: Artillery

Unit: Macbeth (SC) Artillery

Before Sharpsburg

He enlisted in the Laurens District, SC on 20 March 1862 as a Private in Battery C, Macbeth Light Artillery.

On the Campaign

He was mortally wounded in action at Sharpsburg on 17 September 1862.

The rest of the War

He died of wounds before 20 October 1862, exact date not given. His widowed mother Huldah filed for his final pay in February 1863.

References & notes

His service from his Compiled Service Records,1 online from fold3, as Elihu Sherley. His mortal wounding from Captain Boyce's Report.

Birth

c. 1842; Laurens District, SC

Death

10/1862; Winchester, VA

Notes

1 US War Department, Compiled Service Records of Confederate Soldiers, Record Group No. 109 (War Department Collection of Confederate Records), Washington DC: US National Archives and Records Administration (NARA), 1903-1927 [AotW citation 30287]

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