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SHAFTER, WILLIAM R.; Congressional Medal of Honor Recipient - Civil War

jasche — 2006-11-18 16:22:35Z

Source: http://www.army.mil/cmh/Default.htm

Note: This is not my ancestry. I have NO additional information. I am just passing along information that may be useful.

SHAFTER, WILLIAM R.

Rank and organization: First Lieutenant, Company I, 7th Michigan Infantry. Place and date: At Fair Oaks, Va., 31 May 1862. Entered service at: Galesburg, Mich. Birth: Kalamazoo, Mich. Date of issue: 12 June 1895. Citation: Lt. Shafter was engaged in bridge construction and not being needed there returned with his men to engage the enemy participating in a charge across an open field that resulted in casualties to 18 of the 22 men. At the close of the battle his horse was shot from under him and he was severely flesh wounded. He remained on the field that day and stayed to fight the next day only by concealing his wounds. In order not to be sent home with the wounded he kept his wounds concealed for another 3 days until other wounded had left the area.

Re: SHAFTER, WILLIAM R.; Congressional Medal of Honor Recipient - Civil War

jasche — 2006-11-18 16:22:35Z

William Rufus Shafter

Burial: San Francisco National Cemetery, San Francisco, CA

Born: 1835 at Kalamazoo, MI

Died: 1906

Additional Information and cemetery monument photo:
http://www.homeofheroes.com/gravesites/states/pages_pz/shaft...

Shafter-Oakland Kansas

dsegelquist — 2005-12-13 16:06:32Z

I have one Franklin Shafter of the year 1890. he was in the Kansas National Guard. Age 41 Rank Capt. In Service May 9 1890 out Service May 23 1893. He was 5. feet 6.in toal Brown Hair and Blue eyes. sorry all I have.

Shafter

rhoneyb — 2004-11-29 16:07:10Z

Searching for information on George Shafter. b. abt 1872 in Germany. Lived in FL sometime in 1920's Daughter named Gladys Marie Shafter (Boyd) b. 16 July 1927 d. 26 Feb. 1957 Wife's name Georgia Elenfield or Eunfield (not sure). b. abt.1897 He was my grandfather but I never met him and any information would be greatly appreciated.

Re: Shafter-Oakland Kansas

odinthemaster — 2003-09-08 14:02:58Z

Have you tried checking the U.S. Federal Census for 1890?
If not try checking it, you may find something.

Surname Query

odinthemaster — 2003-09-05 04:05:20Z

Has this name ever been spelled differently?

Shafter/Sangster in Montreal

madasahatter — 2003-05-27 00:02:29Z

Looking for information re
William Milton Shafter b. 1906 married to
Mary Sangster b. 1906 Aberdeen Scotland
Married Dec 1937 in the United Free Pres. Church, Montreal. He was bank clerk and she was a bookbinder

Mary died in May 1938 during childbirth. The twin boys she was carrying also died.

Can anyone help me find their graves please. Any other information anyone may have on this couple (she was my g/aunt) would be very gratefully appreciated.
Thanks
Lynda

Looking for Family?

clarashaffer21 — 2002-04-09 01:35:06Z

I am in desperate need of finding my half sister
we had the same father Harold Lawrence Shaffer, but different
mothers and when my father divorced and remarried, my sister went
with her mother and was raised with her, then later in 1964
I came along. As I grew up my father told me that I had a
sister, but he never told me her name and
when I was fifteen my father died, he was 59 and died of a
heart attack, something in my life is missing
and it would be great to put this together, before I
get much older and I know that my sister has to
be in her late 40 or early 50's by now, it would
be great to find her, if anyone could help
Thanks
Clara Shaffer