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Confederate (CSV)

Private

James Jackson Shipp

(1842 - 1928)

Home State: Virginia

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 44th Virginia Infantry

Before Sharpsburg

In 1860 he was a 19 year old living with farmer Robert C Kent and family at Wilmington in Fluvanna County, VA. He enlisted at Palmyra, VA on 20 May 1861 and mustered as a Private in Company F, 44th Virginia Infantry.

On the Campaign

He was wounded by a gunshot to his left groin and thigh in action at Sharpsburg on 17 September 1862 and captured there.

The rest of the War

He was admitted to US Army General Hospital #5 in Frederick, MD on 21 October, where Assistant Surgeon A.V. Cherbonnier noted:

a conoidal ball had entered the left groin and emerged in the posterior [back] middle third of the thigh, fracturing the tuberosity of the ischium [lower, back hip bone] in its course. On admission the patient suffered excruciating pain; there was a thin and very offensive discharge from the wound. Chloroform was administered and large fragments of the ischium were removed ... he improved after the operation ...

He was transferred to GH #1 in Frederick on 29 December, and sent off to Fort McHenry in Baltimore for exchange on 4 March 1863. He was sent to Fortress Monroe, VA on 13 March, admitted to a hospital in Petersburg, VA on 18 March, and furloughed home for 60 days on 6 April.

He was retired to the Invalid Corps on 10 February 1865 and detailed as a nurse in Chimborazo Hospital #2 in Richmond, VA on 14 February, but was reported as a deserter from that post on 1 April 1865, with no later military record.

After the War

By 1870 and to at least 1880 he was a farmer at Columbia Township (near Scottsville, Albemarle County) in Fluvanna County, VA. By 1900 and to at least 1910 he was farming at Louisa, VA. In 1920 he had retired and lived with his son George in Louisa.

References & notes

His service from his Compiled Service Records,1 online from fold3, also as James E Ship. Wound and hospital details from the MSHWR,2 quoted above, and the Patient List.3 Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1860. His gravesite is on Findagrave; his daughter Annie applied for a government headstone for him in 1934.

He married Mary Frances Glass (1842-) in June 1864 and they had 8 children.

Birth

08/15/1842; Fluvanna County, VA

Death

01/07/1929; Louisa, VA; burial in Shipp Family Cemetery, Louisa County, 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 32052]

2 Barnes, Joseph K., and US Army, Office of the Surgeon General, The Medical and Surgical History of the War of the Rebellion, 6 books, Washington DC: US Government Printing Office, 1870-1883, Volume 2, Part 2, p. 241 [AotW citation 32053]

3 National Museum of Civil War Medicine, and Terry Reimer, Frederick Patient List, Published 2018, first accessed 17 September 2018, <http://www.civilwarmed.org/explore/primary-sources/databases/frederickpatient/>, Source page: patient #1.181 [AotW citation 32054]

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