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Confederate (CSV)

Corporal

Joshua Shirley, Jr.

(c. 1840 - 1862)

Home State: Mississippi

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 2nd Mississippi Infantry Battalion

Before Sharpsburg

In 1860 he was 19 years old and living on his older half-brother Gabriel's farm at Columbus in Lowndes County, MS. He enlisted at Columbus as First Corporal of Company K, 2nd Mississippi Infantry Battalion on 1 May 1862.

On the Campaign

He was killed in action at Sharpsburg on 17 September 1862.

References & notes

His service from his Compiled Military Service Records,1 via fold3, filed under 48th Mississippi Infantry. Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1860.

Birth

c. 1840; Fayette County, AL

Death

09/17/1862; Sharpsburg, MD

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 29027]

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