John Henry Shaw

In 1860 he was a 22 year old apprentice blacksmith living with his mother and 3 siblings at Lexington in Davidson County, NC. He enlisted at Cotton Grove, NC on 3 March 1862 and mustered on 15 April at Camp Mangum near Raleigh as a Private in Company B, 48th North Carolina Infantry.

He was sent to a hospital in Frederick, MD by 12 September, left behind, and captured there.

He was in US Army General Hospital #1 in Frederick, MD to 19 September and afterward was a prisoner at Fort Delaware to 2 October, then sent to Aikens' Landing, VA for exchange. He arrived there on 6 October, was in a Richmond, VA hospital by 14 October, furloughed for 60 days on 23 October, and was formally exchanged on 10 November 1862. He returned to duty on 18 February 1863 and received pay in a hospital in Richmond in November 1863, with no later record with his company. He was paroled as an individual soldier (not with his unit) at Greensboro, NC on 3 May 1865.

In 1870 he was a farm laborer, probably for his father-in-law Daniel Hedrick at Silver Hill in Davidson County, NC but in 1880 was a blacksmith there. He was farming his own place at Silver Hill by 1900, but was again a blacksmith with his own shop at Lexington, NC in 1910.

His service from his Compiled Service Records,1 online from fold3. He's also on the Confederates In Frederick List.2 Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1860-1910. His gravesite is on Findagrave.

He married Neta "Nettie" Hedrick (1838-1919) in January 1861 and they had 8 children; Nettie's brother Joseph was also in Company B and captured at Frederick with John.

09/09/1837; Lexington, NC

07/12/1918; Lexington, NC; burial in Mount Tabor United Church of Christ Cemetery, Davidson County, NC