Happy Veteran's Day!
This 1899 piece of art published by Keppler & Schwartzmann on May 31, 1899 shows a veteran Confederate solder a veteran Union soldier, and a veteran of the Spanish-American war. Interestingly, the Confederate and Union soldiers are shaking the hands of the Spanish-American soldier but are not shaking each other's hands.
There was never an opportunity for a reunion of the Shackford Union and Confederate soldiers because the one known Shackford Confederate soldier, Walter Emory Shackford of the Virginia Calvary 5th Regiment was mortally wounded at "Five Forks" at the age of 18 on April 27, 1865. Three years after the conclusion of the war, Walter's father Rev John William Shackford sent his other son Joseph Wesley Shackford north to meet with the rest of his Shackford family who lived in New Hampshire and Massachusetts. Joseph who turned 20 on this trip described his conflicted feelings of love for family and love for his fallen country in a wonderfully written diary which was published by his grandson, Joseph S. Johnston. When Joseph returned home to Virginia he wrote "I did not wish much to go to the North, except for the sake of gratifying my parents, and now I see the wisdom of their desires. I hope I have learned many valuable truths which will be of great use to me when I shall have to leave my parental roof and "paddle my own canoe.""
Shackford Civil War Veterans - over time, more of their stories will be told in the ShackfordGenealogy blog
Abner R Shackford (1827-1900) - 11th Regiment, Massachusetts Infantry, Co K
Charles Albert Shackford (1848-1903) - 61st Regiment, Illinois Infantry
Charles E Shackford (1844-1897) - 17th Regiment, Maine Infantry
David Shackford (1826-1862)- 8th Regiment, Massachusetts Infantry
Eben Lincoln Shackford - (1842-1908) 1st Regiment, Maine Calvary
Edward Shackford (1834-????) - 140th Regiment, New York Infantry
Gilman Shackford (1828-1864) - 8th Regiment, Maine Infantry, died of wounds, buried at Arlington
Granville Shackford (1840-1916) - Corp of Engineers (Regular Army)
Hiram Shackford (1829-1892) - 1st Regiment, New Hampshire Heavy Artillery
Horatio H Shackford (1834-1901) - 18th Regiment, New Hampshire Infantry
John E Shackford (1825-1873) - 3rd Regiment, Missouri Infantry
John Tyler Shackford (1841-1910) - 44th Regiment, Massachusetts Infantry
Joshua C Shackford (1840-1917) - US Navy
Nathaniel Shackford (1801-1877) - 28th Regiment, Massachusetts Infantry
Nathaniel Shackford (1836-1899) - 6th Regiment, Massachusetts Infantry
Nathaniel Shackford (1826-1920) - 12th Regiment, New Hampshire Infantry
Otis Henry Shackford - 60th Regiment, Massachusetts Infantry
Samuel Shackford (1842-1909) - 1st Regiment California Calvary
Samuel Garland Shackford (1818-1885) - 8th Regiment, Massachusetts Infantry, Company G
Silas Thayer Shackford (1843-1880)- 44th Regiment, Massachusetts Infantry
Theodore Shackford (1842-1920)- 5th Regiment, Maine Infantry
Walter Emory Shackford (1847-1865) - 5th Regiment, Virginia Calvary
William Shackford (1834-1887)- 4th Regiment, Massachuestts Infantry
William Brown Shackford (1812-1866) - 1st Regiment, Massachusetts Infantry
William Gardner Shackford (1840-1907) - US Navy
William Wallace Shackford (1826-1902) - 15th Regiment, New Jersey Infantry
REFERENCES:
Memorial Day, 1899 - three veterans under one flag, N.Y.: Published by Kepper & Schwartzmann, 1899 May 31, Library of Congress, http://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/2012647425/ Johnston Joseph S, editor, The Diary of Joseph Wesley Shackford King and Queen County Virginia 1868-1893 (Library of Congress: Library of Congress, 1991
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