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Notes for Pettus Wales Chick Shell
The 17th Mississippi Infantry, Co. A (Buena Vista Rifles) was attached to the Army of Northern Virginia, seeing action at first Manassas, Ball's Bluff, Fredericksburg, Gettysburg, Chickamauga, Charge of Fort Sanders, Knoxville; Wilderness (where Pettus was wounded in the left leg), Spottsylvania Courthouse, Cold Harbor, the engagements around Petersburg, the Battle of Perryville, in valley of Virginia and others. In the latter conflict Pettus was severely wounded in the right leg, terminating his active service.
"He was paroled at Columbus, Miss., at the close of the war, and soon after began planting on rented land, but made such a success of this business that at the end of three years he was enabled to purchase two hundred and eighty acres of land which he tilled until the close of 1871. January, 1872, he and his brother, M.C. Shell, and brother-in-law, J.H. Smith, engaged in merchandising under the firm name of Shell, Smith, & Shell, at Houston, Miss., but in 1874 Mr. Smith sold his interest to Col. J.L.S. Hill, and the firm name was changed to Hill, Shell & Brother. At the close of the year 1879 Colonel Hill withdrew, selling his interest to his partners, M.C. and P.W. Shell, and the firm has since been Shell Brothers.
Mr. Shell is a democrat in politics, has been a member of the board of selectmen of Houston two terms, is a charter member of the Knights of the Golden Rule, and he and his wife are members of the Methodist Episcopal Church South, in which he is a steward."
Memoirs of Mississippi. p. 755.
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