Father: William Alexander Shaw
Mother: Elizabeth Emmaline Bradley
1850 - Lived, Sumter District, SC
1859 - M.D. degree, Medical College of the State of South Carolina, Charleston, SC (from: Sumter Co, SC; preceptor: Dr. M. Michel)
02/07/1860 - Married, Margaret Gardner Saye (she died in 1895)
07/04/1861 - Enlisted, Sumter, SC
07/10/1861 - Mustered in, Pvt., 9th SC Infantry, Ridgeville, SC
08/31/1861 - Pvt., Co F, 9th SC Infantry
10/00/1861 - Pvt., Co F, 9th SC Infantry
12/00/1861 - Pvt., Co F, 9th SC Infantry
04/30/1862 - Pvt., 2nd Co. E, 6th SC Infantry
06/30/1862 - Pvt., 2nd Co. E, 6th SC Infantry
08/00/1862 - 3rd Cpl., 2nd Co. E, 6th SC Infantry
10/31/1862 - 12/31/1862 - Cpl., Co. E, 6th SC Infantry
01/01/1863 - 02/09/1863 - Cpl., Co. E, 6th SC Infantry
01/15/1863 - Passed, Army Board of Medical Examination for the position of Asst. Surgeon
01/17/1863 - Transferred to the Medical Department as Asst. Surgeon
02/09/1863 - Discharged as Cpl., 6th SC Infantry by promotion
02/09/1863 - Ordered to report to Major-Gen. G. W. Smith for duty with Gen. N. G. Evan's Brigade [S.O. 33/6]
04/00/1863 - Asst. Surgeon, 22nd SC Infantry, near Wilmington, NC
05/01/1863 - Asst. Surgeon, 22nd SC Infantry, Gen. N. G. Evan's Brigade, St. Andrews, ?SC
06/10/1863 - Appointed Asst. Surgeon, Provisional Army of the Confederate States, to rank from 01/13/1863
09/21/1863 - Suffering from a severe case of acute dysentery and found unfit for duty
01/10/1864 - Leave [S.O. 10/5]
01/30/1864 - Confirmed as Asst. Surgeon by the Confederate States Senate
04/02/1864 - As Asst. Surgeon, 22nd SC Infantry, Sullivan's Island [SC], applied for 30 days leave because his father was ill [his father died two days later on April 4, 1864]
09/13/1864 - Asst. Surgeon, 22nd SC Infantry
04/06/1865 - Captured, Sailors Creek, VA
06/20/1865 - Prisoner, Johnson's Island, OH
06/20/1865 - Signed Oath of Allegiance to the United States [Physical description: complexion: fair; hair: dark; eyes: blue; height: 6 ft. 0 in.; place of residence: Maysville, SC]
1870 - Practiced medicine Floyd Co, GA
1874,1880,1890,1893 - Practiced medicine, Coosa, Floyd Co, GA
11/05/1899 - Died, Floyd Co, GA

Robert Krick provided input to this biography.

This biographical sketch is from:
Hambrecht, F.T. & Koste, J.L., Biographical
register of physicians who served the
Confederacy in a medical capacity.
07/06/2013. Unpublished database