Gilbert W. Shaw

In 1860 he was a 33 year old farmer with 2 slaves in Jasper County, GA. He enlisted in Covington, GA on 1 August 1861 and mustered on 5 August as a Private in Company A of the Infantry Battalion, Cobb's Legion.

He was wounded in action at Crampton's Gap on South Mountain on 14 September 1862 and captured there.

He was treated at US Army General Hospital #1 in Frederick, MD then paroled and admitted to a hospital in Richmond, VA on 12 October. He was sent to the parole camp at Camp Lee on 20 October 1862.

He was sent on detail in April 1864, probably to the CSA shops at Augusta, GA, and was issued clothing there in October, but in January 1865 he was listed as absent without leave.

By 1870 he was a farmer at Covington in Newton County, GA.

His service from his Compiled Service Records,1 online from fold3. Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1860 & 1870.

He married Martha Ann Lovejoy (1825-) in January 1851 and they had a son Jefferson Lamar B Shaw (1861-), probably named for Gilbert's first Captain in the Legion.

12/04/1825 in GA