# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/joseph-o-shelby
# Generated: 2026-08-14T22:07:42.222Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/joseph-o-shelby"
name: "Joseph O. Shelby"
slug: "joseph-o-shelby"
description: "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 permission, Shelby formed the New Virginia Colony, a colony of Confederate exiles in Mexico, until the end of the intervention in 1867, after which he abandoned the colony."
tagline: "Confederate States Army general (1830–1897)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Portrait_of_General_Joseph_O._Shelby.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
birthDate: "1830-12-12"
deathDate: "1897-02-13"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             6.348684210526315
  historical:           9.489460000000001
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  50
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Џозеф Шелби"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Joseph O. Shelby"
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  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_O._Shelby"
    title: "Joseph O. Shelby"
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  - url: "https://et.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Orville_Shelby"
    title: "Joseph Orville Shelby"
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    title: "جوزف او. شلبی"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "ジョセフ・シェルビー"
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  - url: "https://sh.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_O._Shelby"
    title: "Joseph O. Shelby"
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    title: "Wikidata"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump