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The photograph on this page also appears on the site of the 122nd re-enactors at http://www.122ndnewyork.com/original.html, from which this copy was "borrowed." Please visit that site to see more about the service of Dudley Shirley in particular and about the regiment in general. They have a great deal of very interesting material about the historical regiment.
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The Syracuse Journal of Thursday, June 9, 1964 carried the following information about his wounding at the Battle of Cold Harbor.
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WOUNDED OFFICERS—It is telegraphed to the New York papers that Lieut. T. L. Poole [Poole was wounded in the left elbow and side. KJW] and Lieut. D. G. Shirley, both of the 122d regiment, wounded at the Cold Harbor battle, arrived at Washington on Tuesday. |
Below you will find his entry from pages 3451-3452, Volume IV of Phisterer's New York in the War of the Rebellion, 1861-1865.
SHIRLEY, DUDLEY G., Age 29 years; enrolled August 3, 1862, at Onondaga to serve three years; mustered in as Corporal, Company D, August 8, 1862; promoted Sergeant in January, 1863; First Sergeant, March 1, 1863; wounded in action, June 1, 1864, at Cold Harbor, Va.; mustered in as First Lieutenant, July 6, 1864; wounded in action, September 19, 1864, at Winchester, Va.; discharged for disability from wounds, November 20, 1864; commissioned, not mustered Second Lieutenant, November 9, 1863, with rank from October 3, 1863, vice J. W. Taylor, discharged; First Lieutenant, July 6, 1864, with rank from June 21, 1864, vice H. H. Hoyt, killed in action; Captain, not mustered, December 24, 1864, with rank from December 17, 1864, vice D. Cossitt, discharged.
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