Living Individual - Details withheldThere were Larkin Shipleys back in the early days of Maryland.
At the time of the Civil War William and Larkin Shipley enlisted at Harrison with CO. C of the Fifth Tennessee Infantry and began walking to Barboursville, Ky., to join the Federal unit. Along the way, they were robbed by highwaymen who exchanged their rags for the good clothes of the Shipleys. Larkin was captured near Wilmington, NC Feb. 27, 1865, and placed under arrest by Federal authorities for desertion until he was paroled at the end of the war.
