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Federal (USV)

Private

Alonzo Whipple Shaw

(1834 - 1924)

Home State: New Hampshire

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 5th New Hampshire Infantry

Before Antietam

From Hampton, he enlisted at age 27 in Company D, 5th New Hampshire Infantry on 23 September 1861.

On the Campaign

He was wounded in action on 17 September 1862.

The rest of the War

He was discharged for disability on 20 November 1862. He reenlisted, as Private in Company K, First New Hampshire Heavy Artillery on 3 September 1864. He was mustered out on 15 June 1865.

After the War

He was living in Hampton, NH in 1893.

References & notes

Basic information from Child1 and Ayling2. Details from Dow's History of the Town of Hampton, New Hampshire (1892), and family genealogists.

Birth

09/03/1834; Hampton, NH

Death

1924; Hampton, NH; burial in High Street Cemetery, Hampton, NH

Notes

1 Child, M.D., William, A History of the Fifth Regiment New Hampshire Volunteers, Bristol (NH): R.W. Musgrove, Printer, 1893, Roster pp. 149 - 162 [AotW citation 13458]

2 State of New Hampshire, Adjutant-General's Office, and Augustus D. Ayling, AG, Revised Register of the Soldiers and Sailors of New Hampshire in the War of the Rebellion 1861-1866 , 2 Volumes, Concord: Ira C. Evans, Public Printer, 1895, Vol. 2, pg. 954 [AotW citation 13516]

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