Shirley, James R
Private—Enlisted in Co. A, 2nd Arkansas Cavalry Battalion, at Hampton, Arkansas, February 20, 1862; transferred to Co. H, 2nd Arkansas Cavalry Regiment, May 15, 1862; transferred to Co. G, 2nd Arkansas Cavalry Regiment, August 18, 1862; captured at Bolivar, Mississippi, July 4, 1863; confined at U.S. Military Prison, Camp Morton, Indiana; exchanged at City Point, Virginia, March 23, 1865; born c1831; died November 12, 1899; buried in Oak Bower Cemetery, Hot Spring county, Arkansas; widow Mary L. Shirley filed Arkansas pension application #15483 from Clark county, August 7, 1903; bought land in Calhoun county in 1883.