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                  The SHIPP Family - Pg. 1

  Wesley Allen Shipp : Allen Wesley Shipp

  Luther Allen Shipp :  Allen Luther Shipp

 ** Note: the above names are used to reflect the names used on historical documents that were found during research and also were the names given to me by family members. 

                             Descendants of WILLIAM H. SHIPP


            1-William H. SHIPP, son of SHIPP and Unknown, was born on 10 Jan
             1825 in Sampson Co., North Carolina, died on 12 Jul 1902 in
             Dunnellon, Florida at age 77, and was buried in Dog Ear Cemetery
             AKA Black Dirt Cemetery. The cause of his death was Dropsy.

            General Notes: American Civil War Regiments
             REGIMENT:1st Cavalry Regiment Florida
             Date of Organization:1 Jan 1862
             Muster Date:9 Apr 1865
             Regiment State:Florida
             Regiment Type:Cavalry
             Regiment Number:1st
             Regimental Soldiers and History:List of Soldiers 
             Regimental History FIRST FLORIDA CAVALRY.   The 1st Florida Cavalry
            was composed of ten companies from  various parts of the State.  Co.
            A, Capt. Arthur Roberts, Columbia county; Co. B. Capt. John G.
            Haddock, Nassau county; Co. C, Capt. John A. Summerlin, Clay county;
            Co. E, Capt. Charles F. Cone, Suwannee county; Co. F. Capt. William
            M. Footman, Leon county; Co. G. Capt. Nicholas S. Cobb' Levy county;
            Co. H. Capt. Noble A. Hull, Duval county; Co. I, Capt. W. D. Clarke,
            Alachua county; Co. K, Capt. David Hughes.  The Regiment was
            assembled at Camp Mary David, six miles south  of Tallahassee, where
            it went into camp of instruction and was  mustered into service in
            July, 1861. The Regiment was organized  by the election of William G.
            M. Davis, Colonel; George Troupe  Maxwell, Lieutenant-Colonel: and
            William T. Stockton, Major.  Colonel Davis was promoted to
            Brigadier-General November 4,  1862, and Lieut.-Col. George T.
            Maxwell became Colonel, and  William T. Stockton Lieutenant-Colonel.
            and Captain Footman  acting Major. The Regiment did service in
            Florida until the  spring of 1862, when it was ordered to
            Chattanooga.  Before leaving Florida seven companies, B. C, D, G. H.
            I and K,  voluntarily dismounted and served through the war as
            infantry,  being known as the 1st Florida Cavalry, dismounted.  Cos.
            A, E and F remained mounted until 1864 when they dismounted  and
            rejoined the Regiment. While mounted these companies did  excellent
            service, under Captain Footman, as scouts. The  mounted battalion was
            engaged in the battle of Richmond, Ky.,  August 30, 1862, and the
            seven dismounted companies took part in  the battle of Perryville
            October 8, 1862.  The story of the 1st Florida dismounted is so
            interwoven with  that of the 1st, 3d, 4th, 6th and 7th, that to tell
            the story of  one is to tell that of each of the splendid
            organizations from  Florida that shed luster on the State in the war
            of the sixties.  At Missionary Ridge the 1st Cavalry lost heavily in
            killed and  wounded and captured; among these last were all the Field
            Officers of the Regiment. Out of the 200 men the Regiment went  into
            the battle with there was 33 officers left. The gallant  band was so
            reduced that it was consolidated with the 4th  Infantry at Dalton,
            GA, February 23, 1864, and the little  remnant surrendered with
            Johnston's at Army Greensborough April  26, 1865.   Source: Soldiers
            of Florida in the ... Civil War ... page 246   Chickamagua after
            battle report:   Report of Col. G. Troup Maxwell, First Florida
            Cavalry (dismounted).  HDQRS. FIRST FLORIDA CAVALRY, Near
            Chattanooga, East Tenn., September 26, 1863. CAPT.: I have the honor
            to submit the following report of the part taken by my regiment in
            the battles of 19th and 20th instant: On the 19th, we lay in line of
            battle all the forenoon and until 3 p. m. At that hour I was ordered
            to deploy my regiment as skirmishers to cover the front of the
            brigade. Very soon after the deployment was effected we became hotly
            engaged with the enemy's sharpshooters (under very great
            disadvantage, as my regiment was armed chiefly with short-range guns
            of inferior quality) and with their battery, from which we received a
            galling fire of grape, shell, and canister. I continued to skirmish
            with them until they advanced in force in line of battle to within
            200 yards of the front of the brigade, when my regiment was rallied
            and reformed upon the left of the brigade in its former position. The
            failure of the enemy to engage our whole line just then surprised me
            at the time, but was satisfactorily explained afterward when I
            learned that Robertson's brigade, of Hood's division, came upon them
            on our right, striking their left, and drove them across our front.
            Soon an order was given for an advance of the whole brigade, and I
            was ordered to be governed by the movements of the Seventh Florida,
            just immediately on my right, and obey all orders which were extended
            from the right to the left, my regiment occupying the left of the
            brigade.  I advanced keeping line be the Seventh, and was thrown into
            a dense cover of woods, which protected me from and enfilading fire
            of the enemy's artillery and infantry to which I would otherwise have
            been exposed. Just then the order was given to move by the right
            flank, which exposed my flank to a terrible fire of small-arms and
            artillery for the distance of 200 yards through an open corn-field
            and to a cross-fire of the same in the thin skirting of woods in
            which we were halted. This flank movement I have since learned was
            ordered by Brig.-Gen. Robertson.  In the battle of the 19th, my loss
            was 2 killed and 15 [wounded]. Among the killed was Lieut. Richard F.
            Hart, Company E, a most excellent officer and worthy gentleman.
            Courteous and polite in his social relations, and firm, but kind, in
            his official capacity, he was respected and loved by all who were
            brought into intimate intercourse with him. Prompt, faithful, and
            energetic in the discharge of all his duties, his company and
            regiment have lost a noble and gallant officer and his country a
            devoted patriot.  On the 20th, as the day before, we were all the
            forenoon lying waiting for the order to advance. About 3 p. m., a
            report having been received that the enemy's cavalry were in our
            rear, I was ordered back with my own and the Seventh Florida Regt.
            and a Napoleon gun from Peoples' battery to arrest their advance.
            During this time a most terrible contest was going on along our whole
            line. The turning point of the battle seemed to be, as it was, a t
            hand, which involved a death struggle. I received orders first to
            sent to the front the Seventh Florida Regt. and subsequently to move
            up rapidly with my own. While obeying the latter order I lost the
            track of the brigade. Meeting a staff officer of Gen. Preston, upon
            inquiring I was directed by him to a certain point about a mile in
            advance as the place where Trigg's brigade was fighting. I
            double-quicked to the point indicated, receiving a fire from the
            enemy's sharpshooters through most of the field. Arriving at the
            woods I formed line and looked about in vain for any of our troops. I
            advanced into the woods and was met by a storm of balls from the
            rifles of the enemy, who was strongly posted behind breastworks upon
            the crest of a high hill. Then and there I met Gen. Gracie, who
            informed me that his brigade had been twice repulsed from the same
            hill. Not being able of find my own brigade commander, I put myself
            under his orders. He at first directed me to take the hill, but upon
            my suggestion that it was hardly possible for my small regiment to do
            what his large brigade had failed to accomplish, he ordered me to
            remain where I was until he could reform his brigade, the locality of
            which he did not then know. Being exposed to a severe fire to which
            they could not reply, I ordered my regiment to fall back to the cover
            of a fence in the corn-field, which they did in good order.  My loss
            on this occasion was 1 killed and 9 wounded. Among the latter were
            Lieut.-Col. Stockton and Capt. Gaston Finley, both slightly.  Where
            all did well it would be invidious to make distinctions. Every
            officer and man did his duty, and deserves the plaudit of "Well done,
            good and faithful servant."  I am, very respectfully,  G. TROUP
            MAXWELL, Col., Comdg.  [Capt. JAMES BENAGH, Assistant Adjutant-Gen.] 
            P. S.--Among the casualties of the 19th, I omitted report 1 man
            missing, who has not yet reported, and I fear was killed.  Source:
            Official Records CHAP. XLII.] THE CHICKAMAUGA CAMPAIGN. PAGE 433-51
            [Series I. Vol. 30. Part II, Reports. Serial No. 51.] 


             Battles Fought :

            Fought on 6 Apr 1862 at Shiloh, TN. 
            Fought on 27 Apr 1862 at Camp Walton, FL.
            Fought on 15 May 1862.
            Fought on 27 Jun 1862.
            Fought on 10 Aug 1862.
            Fought on 15 Aug 1862 at Kentucky.
            Fought on 20 Aug 1862 at Barbourville, KY.
            Fought on 1 Sep 1862 at Kentucky.
            Fought on 10 Sep 1862 at Pine Mountain, KY.
            Fought on 15 Sep 1862 at Barbourville, KY.
            Fought on 15 Sep 1862 at Lexington, KY.
            Fought on 15 Sep 1862 at Kentucky.
            Fought on 21 Sep 1862 at New Castle, KY.
            Fought on 26 Sep 1862 at Kentucky.
            Fought on 1 Oct 1862 at Kentucky.
            Fought on 2 Oct 1862 at Lexington, KY.
            Fought on 6 Oct 1862 at Frankfort, KY.
            Fought on 8 Oct 1862 at Danville, KY.
            Fought on 10 Oct 1862 at Kentucky.
            Fought on 10 Oct 1862 at Frankfort, KY.
            Fought on 10 Oct 1862 at Bloomfield, KY.
            Fought on 12 Oct 1862 at Frankfort, KY.
            Fought on 15 Oct 1862 at Lexington, KY.
            Fought on 15 Oct 1862 at Versailles, KY.
            Fought on 15 Oct 1862 at Frankfort, KY.
            Fought on 15 Oct 1862 at Kentucky.
            Fought on 16 Oct 1862 at Frankfort, KY.
            Fought on 17 Oct 1862 at Kentucky.
            Fought on 17 Oct 1862 at Lexington, KY. 
            Fought on 20 Oct 1862 at Kentucky.
            Fought on 20 Oct 1862.
            Fought on 25 Oct 1862 at Kentucky.
            Fought on 28 Oct 1862 at New Castle, KY.
            Fought on 1 Nov 1862 at Versailles, KY.
            Fought on 1 Nov 1862 at Lexington, KY.
            Fought on 1 Nov 1862 at Kentucky.
            Fought on 8 Nov 1862 at Versailles, KY.
            Fought on 15 Nov 1862 at Keene, KY.
            Fought on 16 Nov 1862 at Lawrenceburg, KY.
            Fought on 25 Mar 1863 at Somerset, KY.
            Fought on 30 Mar 1863 at Somerset, KY. 
            Fought on 31 Mar 1863 at Somerset, KY.
            Fought on 19 Sep 1863 at Chickamauga, GA. 
            Fought on 20 Sep 1863 at Chickamauga, GA. 
            Fought on 22 Sep 1863 at New Castle, TN.
            Fought on 25 Sep 1863 at New Castle, TN.
            Fought on 25 Nov 1863 at Missionary Ridge, TN. 
            Fought on 1 Dec 1863 at Covington, GA.
            Fought on 1 Dec 1863 at Chattanooga, TN.
            Fought on 20 Feb 1864 at Olustee, FL. 
            Fought on 25 Feb 1864 at Dalton, GA. 
            Fought on 3 May 1864 at Resaca, GA.
            Fought on 11 May 1864 at Yellow Tavern, VA. 
            Fought on 15 May 1864 at Resaca, GA.
            Fought on 17 May 1864 at Rome, GA. 
            Fought on 24 May 1864 at Dallas, GA. 
            Fought on 25 May 1864 at Dallas, GA. 
            Fought on 26 May 1864 at Dallas, GA. 
            Fought on 28 May 1864 at Dallas, GA.
             Fought on 28 May 1864 at New Hope Church, GA.
            Fought on 10 Jun 1864 at New Hope Church, GA.
            Fought on 15 Jun 1864 at Marietta, GA. 
            Fought on 15 Jun 1864 at Pine Mountain, GA.
            Fought on 20 Jun 1864 at Kenesaw Mountain, GA. 
            Fought on 29 Jun 1864 at Kenesaw Mountain, GA. 
            Fought on 1 Jul 1864 at Kenesaw Mountain, GA.
            Fought on 2 Jul 1864 at Kenesaw Mountain, GA.
            Fought on 3 Jul 1864 at Kenesaw Mountain, GA.
            Fought on 4 Jul 1864 at Chattahoochee River, GA.
            Fought on 4 Jul 1864 at Chattahoochee, FL.
            Fought on 5 Jul 1864 at Marietta, GA.
            Fought on 8 Jul 1864 at Cedar Key, FL.
            Fought on 22 Jul 1864 at Atlanta, GA. 
            Fought on 22 Jul 1864 at Peach Tree Creek, GA.
            Fought on 3 Aug 1864 at Atlanta, GA. 
            Fought on 7 Aug 1864 at Atlanta, GA. 
            Fought on 10 Aug 1864 at Atlanta, GA. 
            Fought on 17 Aug 1864 at Kingsley Lake, FL.
            Fought on 18 Aug 1864 at Atlanta, GA. 
            Fought on 20 Aug 1864 at Jonesboro, GA.
            Fought on 20 Aug 1864 at Atlanta, GA. 
            Fought on 31 Aug 1864 at Jonesboro, GA. 
            Fought on 4 Sep 1864 at Jonesboro, GA.
            Fought on 18 Sep 1864 at Jonesboro, GA.
            Fought on 30 Sep 1864 at Franklin, TN.
            Fought on 29 Nov 1864 at Franklin, TN.
            Fought on 30 Nov 1864 at Franklin, TN. 
            Fought on 4 Dec 1864 at Murfreesboro, TN.
            Fought on 7 Dec 1864 at Murfreesboro, TN. 
            Fought on 10 Dec 1864 at Lavergne, TN.
            Fought on 14 Dec 1864 at Murfreesboro, TN.
            Fought on 15 Dec 1864 at Nashville, TN.
            Fought on 16 Dec 1864 at Nashville, TN. 
            Fought on 17 Dec 1864 at Franklin, TN. 
            Fought on 18 Dec 1864 at Franklin, TN.
            Fought on 19 Dec 1864 at Triune, TN.
            Fought on 21 Dec 1864 at Nashville, TN.
            Fought on 22 Dec 1864 at Nashville, TN.
            Fought on 25 Dec 1864 at Pulaski, TN. 
            Fought on 9 Jan 1865.
            Fought on 12 Jan 1865 at Meridian, MS.
            Fought on 1 Feb 1865.
            Fought on 19 Mar 1865 at Bentonville, NC. 
            Fought on 10 Apr 1865 at Macon, GA.
            Fought on 15 Apr 1865 at Greensboro, NC.
            Fought on 8 May 1865 at Camp Anderson, SC.
            Fought on 18 May 1865 at Hartwell, GA.


                                       American Civil War Regiments
            
            Research Notes: 1850 United States Federal Census 
            about William Shipp
            Name:William Shipp Age:25 Estimated Birth Year:abt 1825 Birth
            Place:North Carolina Gender:Male Home in
            1850(City,County,State):Division 11, Madison, FloridaHousehold
            Members: Name AgeMary Shipp  22 William Shipp  25 
           
            1860 United States Federal Census 
            about William Ship
            Name:William Ship Age in 1860:35  Birth Year:abt 1825 
            Birthplace:North Carolina  Home in 1860:Levy, Florida Gender:Male 
            Post Office:Bronson Value of real estate:View Image Household
            Members: Name AgeWilliam Ship  35 Tabitha A Ship  34 James Ship  9
            Thomas Ship  4 Elizabeth Ship  1 Nancy A Ship  7
             View original image
           
            American Civil War Soldiers 
            about William Ship
            Name:William Ship Enlistment Date:20 Dec 1861 Enlistment
            Place:Bronson, Florida  Side Served:Confederacy  State Served:Florida
            Death Date:12 Jul 1902 Death Place:Levy County, Florida  Service
            Record:Enlisted as a Private on 20 December 1861. Enlisted in Company
            I, 1st Cavalry Regiment Florida  on 20 Dec 1861.  Sources:51,87 
           
            U.S. Civil War Soldiers, 1861-1865 
            about William Shipp
            Name:William Shipp Side:Confederate  Regiment State/Origin:Florida 
            Regiment Name:1 Florida Cavalry.  Regiment Name Expanded:1st
            Regiment, Florida Cavalry  COMPANY:I  Rank In:Blacksmith  Rank In
            Expanded:Blacksmith  Rank Out:Blacksmith  Rank Out
            Expanded:Blacksmith  Film Number:M225 roll 8 
           
            1870 United States Federal Census 
            about William Shipps
            Name:William Shipps Estimated Birth Year:abt 1858 Age in 1870:12 
            Birthplace:Florida  Home in 1870:Ocala, Marion, Florida Race:White 
            Gender:Male  Value of real estate:View Image  Post Office:Ocala
            Household Members: Name AgeWilliam Shipps  45 Phebe Shipps  36
            William Shipps  12 John Shipps  10 Sallie Shipps  10 Robert Shipps  5
            James Shipps  4 Annie Shipps  2 Lucy Shipps  1
            * Occupation: Blacksmith
           
            1880 - Census states William Cannot read or write
                       Occupation: Laborer  Age: 50
           
            1880 - Census shows Wm.'s Birth year as 1830. Age: 50.
                       Living at Hase Johnson, Levy Co., Florida.
           
            1880 United States Federal Census 
            about William Shipp
            Name:William Shipp Home in 1880:Hase Johnsons, Levy, Florida Age:50
            Estimated Birth Year:abt 1830 Birthplace:Georgia Relation to Head of
            Household:Self (Head) Spouse's Name:Phoebe Father's
            birthplace:Georgia Mother's birthplace:Georgia Neighbors:View others
            on page   Occupation:Laborer Marital Status:Married Race:White
            Gender:Male Cannot read/write:  Blind:  Deaf and dumb:  Otherwise
            disabled:  Idiotic or insane: View Image Household Members: Name
            AgeWilliam Shipp  50 Phoebe Shipp  43 Emily Shipp  14 Narcissa Shipp 
            13 Wesley Shipp  6 Ellen Shipp  4 
           
            Florida State Census, 1885 
            about William Shipp
            Name:William Shipp RESIDENCE:Districts 5 and 6, Marion, Florida Birth
            Place:North Carolina  Age:65  Race:White  Gender:Male  Marital
            Status:Married  Relationship to Head of Household:Head  Father's
            Birth Place:North Carolina  Mother's Birth Place:North Carolina 
            Page:2 
                      
            1890 - No Census available at this time. 5/8/2008
           
            Florida Land Records 
            about William Shipp
            Name:William Shipp Land Office:GAINESVILLE  Sequence #:1  Document
            Number:8171  Total Acres:160  Misc. Doc. Nr.:13799  Signature:Yes 
            Canceled Document:No  Issue Date:27 Dec 1890 Mineral Rights
            Reserved:No  Metes and Bounds:No  Statutory Reference:12 Stat. 392 
            Multiple Warantee Names:No  Act or Treaty:May 20, 1862  Multiple
            Patentee Names:No  Entry Classification:Homestead Entry Original Land
            Description:1 W½SW Tallahassee No 15 S 18 E 1 2 E½SE Tallahassee No
            15 S 18 E 2
           
            U.S. General Land Office Records, 1796-1907 
            about William Shipp
            Thumbnail:   View Original Image: View original image  Name:William
            Shipp Issue Date:27 Dec 1890 State of Record:Florida  Acres:160 
            Accession Number:FL0820__.207  Metes and Bounds:No  Land
            Office:Gainesville  Canceled:No  US Reservations:No  Mineral
            Reservations:No  Authority:May 20, 1862: Homestead EntryOriginal (12
            Stat. 392)  Document Number:8171 Legal Land Description: Section Twp
            Range Meridian Counties1 15-S 18-E Tallahassee Marion 2 15-S 18-E
            Tallahassee Marion
           
            1900 - Census shows Wm.'s Birth year as 1812, born in Georgia. Age:
            87
                       Living at Lebanon, Levy Co., Florida.
                       He would have been approx. 20 years older than Phoebe
            (1832).
           
            1900 United States Federal Census 
            about William Shipp
            Name:William Shipp Home in 1900:Lebanon, Levy, Florida Age:87 Birth
            Date:Jul 1812 Birthplace:Georgia Race:White Ethnicity:American 
            Relationship to head-of-house:Head Father's Birthplace:Georgia 
            Mother's Birthplace:Georgia  Spouse's Name:Phoebe A Marriage
            Year:1865  Marital Status:Married  Years Married:35  Residence
            :Precinct 3, Ellzey & Precinct 5, Lebanon, Levy, Florida
            Occupation:View Image  Neighbors:View others on page  Household
            Members: Name AgeWilliam Shipp  87 Phoebe A Shipp  67 

           Noted events in his life were:

           *  He worked as a Blacksmith in 1850. 1850 Census - Madison Co.,
              Florida - Age 25
           *  He worked as a Farmer in 1860. 1860 Census - Levy Co., Florida
           *  He served in the military Civil War on 20 Dec 1861 in Bronson,
              Florida. William Ship
              Enlistment Date: 20 Dec 1861
              Enlistment Place: Bronson, Florida
              Side Served: Confederacy
              State Served: Florida
              Death Date: 12 Jul 1902
              Death Place: Levy County, Florida
              Service Record: Enlisted as a Private on 20 December 1861.
              Enlisted in Company I, 1st Cavalry Regiment Florida  on 20 Dec
              1861.
              Sources: 51,87
             
              William Shipp
              Side: Confederate
              Regiment State/Origin: Florida
              Regiment Name: 1 Florida Cavalry.
              Regiment Name Expanded: 1st Regiment, Florida Cavalry COMPANY: I
             
              Rank In: Blacksmith
              Rank In Expanded: Blacksmith
              Rank Out: Blacksmith
              Rank Out Expanded: Blacksmith
              Film Number: M225 roll 8
             
           *  He was discharged from the military Civil War - Wounded in 1865
              in Brooksville, Hernando County Florida. Served under Captain N.
              S. Cobbs, First Florida Cavalry Regiment, Company I. At
              Jacksonville, Florida. Honorably Discharged "at close of the war"
              at Brooksville, Hernando County, Florida.
             
              Wounded: "A bullet passing near the corner of my left eye caused
              it to inflame and the exposure caused me to take cold in it and
              about a year afterwards I became totally blind in this eye while
              in service, ......"
             
              ( taken from William Shipp's Soldier's Application for Pension,
              dated 2 Nov. 1901, here William Shipp also claims to have been
              born 10 January, in Sampson County, North Carolina)


           *  Burial Place: 12 Jul 1902, Dog Ear / Black Dirt Cemetery.                                  

              William Shipp's Soldier's Application for Pension #A00042

              William married Phoebe Ann DRIGGERS, daughter of William H.
             DRIGGERS, Jr. and Sarah FUTCH, on 3 Oct 1866 in Bronson, Levy
             County, Florida. Phoebe was born about 1838 in Bullock County,
             Georgia, died after 1920 in Dunnellon, Florida, and was buried in
             Dog Ear Cemetery AKA Black Dirt Cemetery. The cause of her death was
             Old Age. They had eight children: Robert, Emily, James, Annie,
             Narcissa A., Lucy, Wesley Allen, and Ellen.

           Noted events in her life were:

           *  She was buried in Dog Ear Cemetery AKA Black Dirt Cemetery.
           *  She signed a marriage contract James L. Strawn on 3 Apr 1858 in
              Levy County, Florida.


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