Joseph O. Shelby

About Joseph O. Shelby

[Wikidata] Confederate States Army general (1830–1897)... | [Wikipedia] Joseph Orville "J.O." Shelby was a Confederate officer who commanded cavalry in the Trans-Mississippi Theater of the American Civil War. After the Confederacy surrendered, Shelby tried to swear fealty to Emperor Maximilian I during the second French intervention in Mexico. With the Emperor's permiss