Regiment: 173rd New York Volunteer Infantry
Company: K
Rank: Musician and Drummer
Enrolled date and place: 5 September 1862 at Brooklyn, Kings County, New York, United States
Discharged date and place: 18 March 1864 at Marine U.S.A. General Hospital, New Orleans, Orleans Parish, Louisiana, United States
Veteran's death date and place: Not listed
Regiment: 107th United States Colored Troops
Company: A;D
Rank: Private
Mustered-in date and place: 18 May 1864 in Lebanon, Kentucky, United States
Mustered-out date: Not listed
Veteran's death date and place: 14 January 1865 at Point of Rocks, Chesterfield County, Virginia, United States
Regiment: 122 United States Colored Troops
Company: K
Rank: Private
Mustered-in date and place: 19 September 1864 in Lebanon, Kentucky, United States
Mustered-out date and place: Not listed
Regiment: 100th United States Colored Troops Infantry
Company: G
Rank: Private
Enrollment date and place: 21 June 1864 in Clarksville, Tennessee, United States
Veteran's death date and place: 1 September 1864 in Nashville, Tennessee, United States
Regiment: 34th United States Colored Troops Infantry
Company: F
Rank: Private
Mustered-in date and place: 15 August 1863 at Beaufort, South Carolina, United States
Mustered-out date and place: 28 February 1866 at Jacksonville, Florida, United States
Regiment: 128th United States Colored Troops
Company: C
Rank: Private
Mustered-in date: 6 March 1865 in Beaufort, Beaufort County, South Carolina, United States
Mustered-out date and place: 10 October 1866 at Charleston, Charleston County, South Carolina, United States
Regiment: 33rd United States Colored Troops
Company: C
Rank: Private
Mustered-in date and place: 24 October 1864 in Hilton Head, Beaufort County, South Carolina, United States [Coals Island, South Carolina]
Mustered-out date and place: 31 January 1866 in Charleston, Charleston County, South Carolina, United States
Regiment: 127th United States Colored Troops
Company: F
Rank: Private
Mustered-in date and place: 31 August 1864 at West Chester, Pennsylvania, United States
Mustered-out date and place: 8 September 1865 at Brazos Santiago Pass, Texas, United States
Regiment: 33rd United States Colored Troops
Company: C
Rank: Private
Mustered-in date and place: 8 April 1863 at Beaufort, South Carolina, United States
Mustered-out date and place: 31 January 1866 at Morris Island, South Carolina, United States
Regiment: 100th United States Colored Troops Infantry
Company: F
Rank: Not listed
Enrollment date and place: 2 June 1864 at Covington, Kentucky, United States
Veteran's death date and place: 2 July 1864 in Nashville, Tennessee, United States
Regiment: 54th Regiment of Massachusetts Colored Volunteers
Company: K
Rank: Private
Enrolled-in date and place: 5 May 1863 in Readville, Massachusetts, United States
Mustered-in date and place: 13 May 1863 in Readville, Massachusetts, United States
Mustered-out date and place: Not listed
Veteran's death date and place: 20 July 1864 in Olustee, Florida, United States
Regiment: 14th United States Colored Volunteer Heavy Artillery
Company: A
Rank: Private
Mustered-in date and place: 8 March 1864 in New Berne, Craven County, North Carolina, United States
Mustered-out date and place: 11 December 1865 in Fort Macon, Georgia, United States
Full-length portrait of Joseph C. Sheffey wearing his jockey uniform.
Full-length portrait of Joseph C. Sheffey (25 September 1881-8 February 1959), the son of Daniel Henry Sheffey, Jr. (1844-1914) and Jane A. White (1860-1912), was born on 25 September 1881.
He married was married to Nannie E. Buford, and later, to Susan "Susie" Julia Roane.
Joseph C. Sheffey was a professional African American jockey in his young adulthood. He is pictured here wearing his winter jockey silks. He was known to have jockeyed in Virginia, Kentucky, Tennessee, and New Jersey. While he lived in Virginia, New Jersey and New York over the course of his life, he passed in 1959 in his native Wytheville, Wythe County, Virginia, United States
