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Joseph Orville "J.O." Shelby (December 12, 1830 – February 13, 1897) was a Confederate officer who commanded cavalry in the Trans-Mississippi Theater of the American Civil War. After the Confederacy surrendered, Shelby tried to swear fealty to Emperor Maximilian I during the French invasion of Mexico .
Shelby's Raid, also known as Shelby's Great Raid [1], was a Confederate cavalry incursion into Arkansas and Missouri during the American Civil War in 1863. Led by Colonel Joseph Orville Shelby, the raid took place from August 21, 1863, to November 3, 1863, covering over 800 miles across territories in west central and northwest Arkansas, as well as southwest and west central Missouri.
These new regiments - Shelby's 5th, Hays's 11th and Coffee's 6th (redesignated as 12th), were brigaded under the command of Colonel Shelby. [2] Jo Shelby's "Missouri Iron Brigade" served in 1864, under Arkansas Confederate Major General Sterling Price, in his great offensive into Union-held, Missouri.
Joseph O. Shelby was buried by the memorial; Waldo P. Johnson is buried behind it. Although many signs and placards commemorating some aspect of the Battle of Westport are present throughout Kansas City today, the main battle monument is located in the Sunset Hill neighborhood just south of the Country Club Plaza .
With many of Price's troops in pell-mell retreat, Joseph Shelby's division—including his Iron Brigade—rode to the front, dismounted, and engaged the Federals while the remaining Southerners retreated towards the Indian Territory. Brigadier General John Sanborn later appeared with Union reinforcements, convincing Shelby to retire. Union ...
Shelby Park in Eagle Pass, Texas — the current epicenter of a standoff with the federal government — was named after a Confederate military leader who fled to Mexico in 1865 rather than ...
Confederate Memorial, Historical Soldiers Memorial Cemetery area of the state-owned Southern Arizona Veterans' Memorial Cemetery. The monument was erected in to honor the 21 soldiers interred in that cemetery who served in the Confederate Army during the Civil War and later fought in Indian wars in Arizona as members of the U.S. Army. [ 99 ...
The action at Ashley's Station was fought between Confederate cavalry under Brigadier-General Joseph O. Shelby and the Union Army garrison under the command of Brigadier-General Christopher Andrews and Colonels Greenville M. Mitchell and Washington F. Geiger in Prairie County, Arkansas on August 24, 1864 during the American Civil War.