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Confederate Veteran,
Vol. XXVII, page 190,
dated, May , 1920.
SAMUEL SHIRLEY entered this world on the 22d of
February, 1842, and having lived worthily for almost 78 years, he was laid to
rest in Concord Cemetery at Woodward, S.C. on Feb.12, 1920.
Responding to the call of his country, SAMUEL
SHIRLEY entered the Confederate army on February23, 1862, as a member of
Company H, under Capt. J.H. BROOKS, - South Carolina regiment. He was wounded
at Drewry's Bluff and was in the brigade hospital at the close of the war.
Once when Col. U.R. BROOKS was badly wounded young SHIRLEY gave him what
assistance he could render. Meeting at a Reunion many years afterwards,
Colonial Brooks gratefully remembered the kindness and they became great
friends, keeping up correspondence until death intervened.
Returning to his home and devasted State after
the surrender, MR. SHIRLEY took up farming as his life work. A momentous event
in his life occurred on St. Valentine's Day of 1867., when he and MISS PEGGIE
DUNBAR united their hearts as one. Now their children and children's rise up
to call him blessed. He was a consistent member of the Baptist Church.
[ Miss Ella Sterling, Blackstock, S.C.]
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