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Pvt Valentine Shockey

8 May 1838 – 27 Jan 1911

Birth8 May 1838
Death27 Jan 1911
CemeteryLittleton Cemetery
Gore Township , Sumner County , Kansas , USA
Added byJudy Mayfield on 24 Apr 2008
FaGhttps://www.findagrave.com/memorial/26315023

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Civil War 17th Independent Battery Ohio Light Artillery s/o Abraham Shockey & Mitilda Hartman Valentine was a Union Soldier during the Civil War having served in the 17th Independence Battery of Ohio Light Artillery. He enlisted on 6 August 1862, at Springfield, Ohio, and was mustered out with the battery at Camp Chase, Ohio, on 16 August 1865. :::::: (A history of the 17th Independence Battery is as follows from Jacob M. Shockey's bio) Four Shockey's served in the 17th Independent Battery. In addition to Jacob his three cousins, Valentine, Isaac and Joseph Shockey, sons of Abraham Shockey also served. Of this group only Valentine survived the war. The others having died of disease. The book, "History of Clark County, Ohio," published in 1881 by Warner Beers and Company of Chicago tells of the service of the 17th Independence Battery: "This Battery was organized at Dayton, Ohio, by Capt. A. A. Blout and mustered into the United States Service at that place on the 21st of August 1862. It entered the field on the 3d of September to assist in repelling an expected attack from Gen. Kirby Smith. It was present at the destruction of the O. and S. Railway and at the five days fight at Chickasaw Bayou; it participated in the capture of Arkansas Post where it suffered much from disease, poor rations and no surgical attention. It is next found with the thirteenth Army Corps in the campaigns against Vicksburg and was engaged in the battles of Port Gibson, Champion Hills, Black River Bridge and forty seven days in the siege of Vicksburg, after which it took part in the demonstration against Jackson and went with the Thirteenth Army Corps to New Orleans where it arrived about the middle of August. It was in the fight at Grand Coteau, November 3, 1863, where it lost twenty five men, twenty one horses, one gun and one caisson. Next it took part in the capture of Fort Morgan and was in the expedition against the city of Mobile. While in the service the Seventeenth was in ten Battles and sieges, fired 4,000 rounds of ammunition, lost upward of forty men by death, and marched more than ten thousand miles by land and water. It was one of the four organizations which received the thanks of the Ohio legislature for services at Arkansas Post and was honorably mentioned in the official reports of Gens. A.J. Smith McClernand Burbridge, Washburn and Col. Owen, by the last for services at Grand Coteau." In his application for pension, dated 16 June 1880, Valentine stated that he was suffering from blindness caused by measles which he contracted at Memphis, Tennessee, in December 1862. Note: Bio info provided by Charlotte M

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