Memorial Day – Honoring SHACKFORDs who Died While Serving in the United States Armed Forces (Blog 500)

Memorial Day, originally known as Decoration Day, was a day to commemorate the men who died while serving on either side of the Civil War.   Today it is a national holiday for remembering the men and women who died while while serving in the United States Armed Forces.  Today we recognize the three SHACKFORDs who died while serving in the military.  If I missed any, I’d love to hear from you!

REVOLUTIONARY WAR

Seth Ring Shackford (1754-1777) – son of Samuel Shackford and Elizabeth Ring.  He was 23 when he was killed in action on October 7, 1777 while serving in Capt Frye’s Company, Colonel Scammell’s 3rd New Hampshire Regiment. at Saratoga, New York. We assume he was one of many soldiers buried on the battlefield.

CIVIL WAR

Gilman Shackford (1828-1864), son of Andrew and Hannah Shackford of Alfred, Maine served with Co B, 8th Maine Infantry.  He was 35 when he died at Hammond Hospital from wounds on August 14, 1864.  He is buried in grave 12609 in Arlington. He left a wife – Celia (Wormwood) Shackford.

Walter Emory Shackford (1847-1865) – son of John William Shackford and Mary Cole McLelland.  Walter served as a Private in Company H, 5th Regiment, Virginia Calvary. He was only 18 when he died on April 27, 1865 from injuries incurred at “Five Forks” in Dinwiddie.

SOURCES:

Find A Grave, Find A Grave, digital images (http://www.findagrave.com : accessed 5 January 2013), Pvt Gilman Shackford, Find A Grave Memorial# 33842603, photo taken by Hope

History of York County, Maine: With Illustrations and Biographical Sketches of Its Prominent Men and Pioneers (York County (Me): Higginson Book Company, 1880), Page 123; digital images, Google eBooks (http://books.google.com : accessed 12 August 2013

Johnston Joseph S, editor, The Diary of Joseph Wesley Shackford King and Queen County Virginia 1868-1893 (Library of Congress: Library of Congress, 1991), p. ix.

McClintock John Norris, Colony Province State 1623-1888 History of New Hampshire (Boston: B. B Russell, Cornhill, 1888), page 389; digital images, Google Books (http://books.google.com : accessed 16 February 2014

“U.S. Civil War Soldiers, 1861-1865,” database, Ancestry.com (http://www.ancestry.com : accessed 14 May 2013), W. E. Shackford, 5th Regiment, Virginia Cavalry; citing M382 roll 49

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