Ephraim J. Shackelford

He enlisted on 24 April 1861 at Vicksburg, MS and mustered as a Private in Company E, 12th Mississippi Infantry on 10 May 1861 in Corinth, MS.

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

He was in a Richmond, VA hospital from October to 11 January 1863, then returned to his unit. He was wounded again, slightly, in the abdomen on the Weldon Railroad near Petersburg, VA on 21 August 1864. He was capture on 2 April 1865 at Petersburg and held at Point Lookout, MD to 20 June 1865, when he was released after taking an oath of allegiance. He was in Washington, DC the next day and was provided transportation to Vicksburg, MS.

His service from his Compiled Military Service Records,1 online from fold3, also as Ephraim J. Shackford. His wound at Sharpsburg on a casualty list in the New Orleans Times-Picayune of 29 October 1862.