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Federal (USV)

Private

Albert J. Shaw

(c. 1832 - 1862)

Home State: Pennsylvania

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 72nd Pennsylvania Infantry

Before Antietam

Age 29, he enlisted and mustered as Private, Company A, 72nd Pennsylvania Infantry on 10 August 1861 in Philadelphia.

On the Campaign

He was killed in action at Antietam on 17 September 1862.

References & notes

Service information from Banes1 and the Card File.2 His gravesite is on Findagrave.

Birth

c. 1832

Death

09/17/1862; Sharpsburg, MD; burial in Laurel Hill Cemetery, Philadelphia, PA

Notes

1 Banes, Charles H., History of the Philadelphia Brigade. Sixty-ninth, Seventy-first, Seventy-second, and One hundred and sixth Pennsylvania Volunteers , Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott & Company, 1876, pp. 309 - 311 [AotW citation 8679]

2 Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Adjutant-General, Pennsylvania Civil War Veterans' Card File, 1861-1866, Published <2005, first accessed 01 July 2005, <http://www.digitalarchives.state.pa.us/archive.asp?view=ArchiveIndexes&ArchiveID=17> [AotW citation 23323]

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