Lieut. (CSA) Selkirk "Kirk" McCoy

Selkirk McCoy was sentenced to life imprisonment for the death of several Hatfields.

here's a quote from out in cyber-space:

"Description
This photo could be Selkirk McCoy, son of Asa, born 1830 in Logan County. Do not know when the name was affixed. If the name was put on the photo near its date, then it is almost surely Selkirk, because he was the only man in Tug Valley who was commonly called “Kirk” McCoy. On the indictment for the paw-paw killings, after the names of L.D. and Albert, the court clerk wrote “Kirk’s son.”
The man in the photo is well-dressed and obviously a prosperous gentleman, as was Selkirk. He has a military bearing, as befits a man who entered the Confederate army as a Private and rose to Lieutenant. Lastly, he fits the descriptions I heard as a boy from old people who knew him. (This information from a post on Facebook)"

"Selkirk enlisted in the Confederate Army on December 31, 1862 at Smyth County, Virginia as a 2nd Sergeant. On May 1, 1863 Selkirk mustered into "E" Co. of the Virginia 45th Battalion Infantry. Selkirk rose to the rank of Lieutenant and took his Amesty Oath in Charleston, West Virginia on May 4, 1864. Selkirk also served with the local militia known as the Logan Wildcats.

~•Some of that local militia were also in another CSA set of companies also known as the Logan's Wildcats: Companies B & D of the 36th Virginia. (all raised in what soon became West Virginia. One of his sons, Albert James, bought land from a Logan Wildcat family of Garland, McDowell Co. (1905). This was the family of Qtr. Mst. Sarg. (CSA) Jesse Weber Bean (1817-1904)

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• Reference: Ancestry Genealogy - SmartCopy: Aug 9 2019, 20:54:18 UTC

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• Reference: Ancestry Genealogy - SmartCopy: Aug 9 2019, 20:31:00 UTC