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Federal (USV)

Private

Ira Shaw

(1810 - 1890)

Home State: New Hampshire

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 5th New Hampshire Infantry

Before Antietam

From Freedom, NH, he enlisted giving his age as 44 (he was 51) in Company H, 5th New Hampshire Infantry on 15 August 1862.

On the Campaign

He was severely wounded in action on 17 September 1862, his 52nd birthday.

The rest of the War

He was discharged for disability at Falmouth, VA on 19 December 1862.

After the War

He was living in Effingham Falls, NH in 1893.

References & notes

Basic information from Child1. Life dates from his gravesite on Findagrave. His son Noah Shaw (1841-1896) was also a member of Company H, from October 1861 to November 1862, and was wounded at Fair Oaks, VA on 1 June 1862.

Birth

09/17/1810; Cabot, VT

Death

01/17/1890; Effingham Falls, NH; burial in Parsons Cemetery, Freedom, 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 13459]

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