Jasper County Democrat, Volume 2, Number 23, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 September 1899 — SHAW WAS A BOY SOLDIER. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

SHAW WAS A BOY SOLDIER.

Enlisted at the Age of 18 and Was in Many Great Battle*. Col. Albert D. Shaw, the new commander of the Grand Army of the Republic, lives at Watertown. N. Y., and was among the first to enlist in the old “fighting” Thirty-fifth regiment of that city. He was 18 years old at the time, a farmer's son, and had never seen a soldier in uniform before. He fought at Arlington Heights, Sulphur Springs, Second Bull

Run, Chantilly, South Mountain, Antietam and Fredericksburg and the historic charge at Chnncellorsville. But as a worker for years past in the ranks of the G. : A. R. he won his principal claims. He has been in the consular service. In 1872 Col. Shaw married Mary Sherwood Keith of Chicago, 111. They have three children—Henry L. Keith Shaw. Mabel Keith*Shaw and Minnie Scott Shaw.

COL. A. D. SHAW.