SHOUP, Francis Asbury, soldier, born in Laurel, Franklin County, Indiana, 22 March, 1834. He was graduated at the United States military academy in 1855, and assigned to the artillery, but resigned, 10 January, 1860. He then studied law, was admitted to the bar at, Indianapolis, and moved to St. Augustine, Florida, early in 1861. He erected a battery at Fernandina under orders of the governor of Florida, was appointed lieutenant in the Confederate army, became major of artillery in October, 1861, and was assigned to duty with General Hardee in the trans-Mississippi department. He was afterward with General Albert Sidney Johnston at Shiloh as senior artillery officer of his army, and massed the artillery against Gem Prentiss's position. He was inspector of artillery under General Beauregard after the latter's succession to the command, subsequently served under Hindman as chief of artillery, commanded a division, as major, at the battle of Prairie Grove, and was appointed brigadier-general, 12 September, 1862, and ordered on duty at Mobile, Alabama Afterward he commanded a Louisiana brigade at Vicksburg, and received the first attack of the National forces. He surrendered at that place, and after his exchange was chief of artillery to General Joseph E. Johnston, and constructed the defensive works on Chattahoochee river. On the succession of General John B. Hood to the command of the army in July, 1864, General Shoup was made chief of staff. He was relieved at his own request, and prepared a pamphlet, which was submitted to the Confederate congress, recommending the enlistment of negro troops. After the close of the war in 1866 he was elected to the chair of applied mathematics in the University of Mississippi. He then studied for the ministry, took orders in the Protestant Episcopal church, and has been rector of churches in Waterford, New York, Nashville, Tennessee, Jackson, Mississippi, and New Orleans, Louisiana He was professor of metaphysics in the University of the south in 1883-'8. He is the author of "Infantry Tactics " (Little Rock, Arkansas, 1862) ; " Artillery Division Drill" (Atlanta, 1864) ; and "Elements of Algebra" (New York, 1874).