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Federal (USV)

Private

James Shinners

(1845 - 1910)

Home State: Connecticut

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 8th Connecticut Infantry

Before Antietam

Of Irish born parents, his father John a paper maker, in 1860 he was a 15 year old living with his parents and 5 siblings in Windsor, CT. He enlisted and mustered as a Private in Company A, 8th Connecticut Infantry on 30 September 1861.

On the Campaign

He was slightly wounded in action at Antietam on 17 September 1862.

The rest of the War

He was promoted to Corporal on 22 September 1863 and reenlisted on 24 December 1863. He was reduced again to Private on 20 February 1864 and was wounded again, at Fort Harrison near Petersburg, VA on 29 September. He was promoted to Corporal on 1 March 1865, to Sergeant on 27 July, and busted back down to Private again on 16 October. He mustered out on 12 December 1865.

After the War

In 1900 he was a store manager in Everett, MA.

References & notes

His service from the Record.1 Wound detail from Major Ward's after-action report, as James A Slimmer. Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1860 & 1900. His gravesite is on Findagrave.

He married Ellen Maria Slocum (1847-1922) in 1872 and they had 3 children.

Birth

09/29/1845 in CT

Death

01/08/1910; Boston, MA; burial in Glenwood Cemetery, Everett, MA

Notes

1 State of Connecticut, Adjutant General's Office, and AGs Smith, Camp, and Barbour, and AAG White, Record of Service of Connecticut Men in the Army and Navy of the United States during the War of the Rebellion, Hartford: Press of the Case, Lockwood, and Brainard Company, 1889, p. 331 [AotW citation 30678]

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