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** Note: the above names are used to reflect the names used on historical documents that were found during research and also were the names given to me by family members.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