James G. Shipley was the Third Commissary Sergeant. He was enlisted by the writer of this in 1862 at Keokuk, Iowa, and was promoted from private in Company K. He afterwards was promoted First Lieutenant in the same Company. He was a man of education and a good deal of ability, and in the performance of his duties, especially in the transportation of the 4th Division 17th Corps from Washington to Louisville via Baltimore & Ohio Railroad, he showed singular and marked ability. His residence is not known.
SOURCE: William W. Belknap, History of the Fifteenth Regiment Iowa Veteran Volunteer Infantry, p. 47
SOURCE: William W. Belknap, History of the Fifteenth Regiment Iowa Veteran Volunteer Infantry, p. 47
