Descendants of Richard Shirley

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Another neglected cemetery in Greene County has been saved through the efforts and hard work of Royce Shingleton, Ph.D. and his family. A native of Stantonsburg, Royce and his family have spent many hours cleaning up the Henry Shirley Cemetery on Fire Tower Rd. Overgrown with trees and brush and enclosed by a rusting metal fence, the site was in danger of becoming another abandoned and neglected cemetery in the county.

On a recent visit to the cemetery, the daffodils were blooming around the gravestones and it was once again a fitting resting place for some of our Greene County ancestors.

Among those buried here are generations of the Shirley family, including Byrd (1795-1870, son of Richard Shirley of Edgecombe Co., NC); Henry (1826-1882, son of Byrd); Mary (1871-1903, daughter of Henry). Marker erected in 2007 by Royce Shingleton, Ph.D. and his family. Dr. Shingleton’s mother, Lossie Ellen Vick Shingleton (1900-1951), was the daughter of Mary and born near here.

LIST OF PUBLICATIONS BY ROYCE SHINGLETON, PH.D.

BOOKS

John Taylor Wood: Sea Ghost of the Confederacy, University of Georgia Press, 1979. Second printing, 1982. (National Historical Society Book Club Selection)

Richard Peters: Champion of the New South, Mercer University Press, 1985. (Received Grant from the Atlanta Foundation)

High Seas Confederate: The Life and Times of John Newland Maffitt, University of South Carolina Press, 1994. Second printing, 1995. (Won the Clarendon Award)

Co-author, The Confederate States Navy: The Ships, Men and Organization, 1861-1865, Naval Institute Press and Conway Maritime Press, 1997. (Contributed Two Chapters)

ARTICLES

“The Republic of Porkdom Revisited: A Note,” Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society, 114, No. 5 (October 20, 1970), 407-408.

“With Loyalty and Honor as a Patriot: Recollections of a Confederate Soldier,” Alabama Historical Quarterly, XXXIII, Nos. 3 and 4 (Fall and Winter, 1971), 240-263.

“British Observations on Farming in the Old South,” American Chronicle, I, No. 2 (February, 1972), 60-63.

“Stages, Steamers and Stations in the Antebellum South, Georgia Historical Quarterly, LVI, No. 2 (Summer, 1972), 243-258.

“The Utility of Leisure: Game as a Source of Food in the Old South,” Mississippi Quarterly, XXV, No. 4 (Fall, 1972), 429-445.

“David Brydie Mitchell and the African Importation Case of 1820,” Journal of Negro History, LVIII, No. 3 (July, 1973), 327-340.

“The Trial and Punishment of Slaves in Baldwin County, Georgia, 1812-1826,” Southern Humanities Review, VIII, No. 1 (Winter, 1974), 67-73.

“South From Appomattox: The Diary of Abner R. Cox,” The South Carolina Historical Magazine, LXXV, No. 4 (October, 1974), 238-244.

“A Page of Unwritten History: The Trial of the Slave Randol,” Historical Review and Antique Digest, III, No. 4 (Winter, 1974), 25-28.

“The Cruise of the CSS Tallahassee,” Civil War Times Illustrated, XV, No. 2 (May, 1976), 30-40.

“The Atlanta: A Civil War Blockade Runner,” Atlanta Historical Bulletin, XX, No. 3 (Fall, 1976), 8-16.

“Swashbuckler in Gray: The Confederate Service of John Taylor Wood,” The United Daughters of the Confederacy Magazine, XLI, No. 10 (October, 1978), 18-19.

“Atlanta Becomes the Capital: The Role of Richard Peters,” Atlanta Historical Journal, XXXVIII, No. 4 (Winter, 1984-85), 39-50.

“Albany Part of Frontier Urbanization,” Albany Herald (Sesquicentennial Edition), October 26, 1986.

“Tornado Albany’s Worst Disaster,” Albany Herald, October 26, 1986.

“Darton Big Factor in Albany’s Future,” Albany Herald, October 26, 1986.

“High Schools Are Still Turning Out Leaders,” Albany Herald, October 26, 1986.

“Battle Was Last Major Stand of the Creeks,” Albany Herald, October 26, 1986. (Reprinted in The Historical News, VIII, No. 34, p. 7).

“Secession Touched Off Massive Celebration,” Albany Herald, October 26, 1986.

“(Nelson) Tift Urged Albanians to Accept Surrender,” Albany Herald, October 26, 1986.

“Early Albany ‘Rather Unpromising’”, Albany Herald, October 26, 1986.

“Albany Played Small Role in Battle of Britain,” Albany Herald, October 26, 1986.

“Mike Usina,” a photo essay, Civil War Times Illustrated, XXVIII. No. 6 (December, 1989), 82.

“Raider’s Blow Stinging,” Military History, VI, No. 5 (April, 1990), 39-44. [Reprinted in Great Battles, VIII. No. 4 (May, 1995), 26-32]

“Confederate Commando: John Taylor Wood’s Raid on New Berne,” Civil War, VIII, No. 6 (November-December, 1990), 12-17, 74-75.

“The Sword and Cross of Giles B. Cooke: A Christian Soldier with Lee and Jackson,” Blue and Gray, X,, No. 5 (June 1993), 32-35.

“Confederate Mike Usina: ‘Boy’ Sea Fox,” Civil War, XLV (June, 1994), 50-57.

WORKS IN REFERENCE BOOKS

“Richard Peters” and “John Taylor Wood” in American National Biography (24 vols.), January, 1999.

“John Taylor Wood,” in Encyclopedia of the Confederacy (4 vols.), March 1999.

BOOK REVIEWS

Burke Davis, The Long Surrender, in Blue and Gray, III, No. 6 (July, 1986), 24.

Atlanta Historical Society, Atlanta in 1890: The Gate City, in The Journal of Southwest Georgia History, IV, (Fall, 1986), 130-131.

James A. Ramage, Rebel Raider: The Life of General John Hunt Morgan, in Atlanta History: A Journal of Georgia and the South, XXXI. Nos. 1-2 (Spring-Summer 1987), 69.

Harold E. Straubing, comp. and ed., The Fateful Lightning: Civil War Eyewitness Reports, in The Lee County Ledger, November 26, 1987.

William N. Still, Jr., Confederate Shipbuilding, in The Journal of Southwest Georgia History, VI (Fall, 1998), 60-61.

James M. Russell, Atlanta 1847-1890: City Building in the Old South and the New, in The Journal of Southwest Georgia History, VI (Fall, 1988) 63-64.

Stephen R. Wise, Lifeline of the Confederacy: Blockade Running During the Civil War, in Atlanta History: A Journal of Georgia and the South, XXXIII, No. 2 (Summer, 1989), 76.

Maxine Turner, Navy Gray: A Story of the Confederate Navy on the Chattahoochee and Apalachicola Rivers, in Atlanta History: A Journal of Georgia and the South, XXXIII, No. 2 (Summer, 1989), 77.

Robert K. Krick, Stonewall Jackson at Cedar Mountain, in Atlanta History: A Journal of Georgia and the South, XXXV, No. 2 (Summer, 1991), 47-48.

Stephen R. Wise, Gate of Hell: Campaign for Charleston Harbor, 1863, in the Georgia Historical Quarterly, LXXIX, No. 1 (Spring, 1995), 249-250.

Charles M. Robinson III, Shark of the Confederacy: The Story of CSS Alabama, in Mariner’s Mirror, (November 1995).

Ivan Musicant, Divided Waters: The Naval History of the Civil War, in Blue and Gray, XIII, No. 5 (June, 1996), 30-32.

Chester G. Hearn, The Capture of New Orleans, 1862, in The American Neptune, LVI, No. 4 (Fall, 1996), 405-406.

R. Thomas Campbell, Gray Thunder: Exploits of the Confederate States Navy; Raimondo Luraghi, A History of the Confederate Navy, in the Georgia Historical Quarterly, LXXXI (Spring, 1997), 197-198.

Chester G. Hearn, Admiral David Dixon Porter: The Civil War Years, in the Florida Historical Quarterly, (Summer, 1997), 103-104.

Warren F. Spencer, Raphael Semmes: The Philosophical Mariner, in the American Historical Review (April, 1998), 603-604.

BIBLIOGRAPHIC ESSAY ON

Russell W. Ramsey, “Royce G. Shingleton: Rising Naval Historian,” Naval War College Review, XLV, No. 3 (Summer, 1992), 162-164.