Field Officers and Staff Colonels GEORGE T. SHACKELFORD: Richmond, promoted 7/27/1863 from Major, wounded 9/19/1863 at Chickamauga, resigned 8-22-1864 (wound). Adjutants GEORGE T. SHACKELFORD: age 24, Richmond, promoted 5/18/1862 to Major. The 6th Kentucky completed its organization on December 24, 1861 at Camp Sigel in Louisville and six days later departed for Camp Morton located near Bardstown, Kentucky. After a short stay at Camp Morton, the regiment marched to Camp Wickliffe in LaRue County, Kentucky, to join its brigade and division and to train. Col. Walter C. Whitaker led the regiment until he was promoted to brigadier general in July 1863 and given command of a brigade. Maj. George T. Shackelford of Richmond, Kentucky, was promoted to colonel to replace Whitaker, and led the 6th until he was seriously wounded at the Battle of Chickamauga on Sept. 19, 1863. Lt. Col. Richard C. Rockingham of Covington assumed command after Shackelford was wounded, but Rockingham was wounded several hours later and killed by an enemy shell the next day. Maj. Richard T. Whitaker of Shelbyville (Walter's brother) then commanded the regiment until he resigned his commission on May 11, 1864. Capt. Isaac N. Johnston from Pleasureville led the regiment during the four-month-long Atlanta Campaign. In late August 1864 Capt. Johnston was replaced as commander by Lt. Col. Richard C. Dawkins of La Grange who had recovered from an ailment that had kept him out of the Atlanta Campaign. Source: The 6th Kentucky Volunteer Infantry Regiment U.S
U.S. Civil War Soldiers, 1861-1865
Name: George T. Shackelford
Side: Union
Regiment State/Origin: Kentucky
Regiment Name: 6 Kentucky Infantry
Regiment Name Expanded: 6th Regiment, Kentucky Infantry
Company: F&S
Rank In: Adjutant
Rank In Expanded: Adjutant
Rank Out: Lieutenant Colonel
Rank Out Expanded: Lieutenant Colonel
Film Number: M386 roll 24
1880 Bellebontaine, Logan, OH census shows occ. Retired Grain Dealer, age 69, born in CT
Name: DOUGLAS ERSKINE
Section: NWNW
Price: 125
Total: 5000
Date: 24 Nov 1835
Volume: 069
Page: 023
Type: FD
Sect: 09
Township: 16N
Range: 05W
Meridian: 3
Acres: 4000
Corr-Tag: 0
ID: 061543
SocStat:
Blank:
Reside: 084
Name: DOUGLAS ERSKINE
Section: NENE
Price: 125
Total: 5000
Date: 24 Nov 1835
Volume: 069
Page: 023
Type: FD
Sect: 08
Township: 16N
Range: 05W
Meridian: 3
Acres: 4000
Corr-Tag: 0
ID: 061544
SocStat:
Blank:
Reside: 084
Not on 1850 census w/family.
Place of birth may be Fayette County, KY
Per Ohio list of Earliest Pioneers of Hamilton County Ohio Who settled Before 1800
From the Hamilton County Ohio Genealogical Society:
Morris, Isaac 1789 Yes Soldier in Revolutionary War
Morris, Rebecca {Hathaway} 1789
Morris, Benjamin 1789
Morris, Mary P {Spinning} 1790History of Warren Co.,(1871; W.H. Beers,) on Pg. 435, (Turtle Creek Township section of book) states: " Benjamin Morris emigrated from New Jersey about 1794, and after passing a few years in Hamilton County, came in 1797 to the neighborhood now known as Green Tree. About the same time, his father, Isaac Morris, purchased and settled upon a tract of about four hundred acres, now owned by the North Family of Shakers."
Earliest Pioneers Of Hamilton County Ohio Who settled Before 1800 From the Hamilton County Ohio Genealogical Society -Morris, Mary P {Spinning} 1790
Per The History of Warren County Ohio, Part V Biographical Sketches; Turtlecreek Twp; Benjamin worked for a time in the office of the Western Star, of Lebanon, in company with his brother.