| Summary: | (Photograph indicates probable rank of brigadier general.) Graduated from West Point, 1855; Seminole War veteran. Resigned his U.S. Army commission in 1860 and was commissioned as a lieutenant in the Confederate Artillery in March 1861. After promoting through the grades, Shoup was promoted to brigadier general in April 1863. Major campaigns and battles include Shiloh, Corinth, Prairie Grove, Vicksburg (captured and exchanged), and the Atlanta campaign. After the war, Shoup became an ordained Episcopal minister, college professor, and author of military subjects and mathematics. He died in Columbus, Tennessee, in September 1896 and is buried at Sewanee, Tennessee. Sources: Boatner, Mark M. The Civil War Dictionary. New York: Vintage Books, 1988. Davis, William C., ed. The Confederate General. Vol. 5. National Historical Society, 1991.
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