
| Posted By: | MICHAEL HIGGINS | |
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| Subject: | Re: Union dead at Haw's Shop | |
| Post Date: | June 27, 2009 at 13:52:40 | |
| Message URL: | http://genforum.genealogy.com/civilwar/messages/26377.html | |
| Forum: | Civil War Forum | |
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At Google Books http://books.google.com/books?id=4BUVAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA723&dq=%22Samuel+A.+Haws%22&ei=6IZGSqftKp-EzASu86RU from the book Lives of the eminent dead By Moses Auge Entered according to Act of Congress in the year 1879 within a bio of Captain Frederick Haws they mention the following Soon after the breaking out of the Southern rebellion, Samuel A. Haws, their eldest son, joined Company B, First Pennsylvania Cavalry, commanded by Colonel Owen Jones, and after serving gallantly to near the end of his enlistment, when in a skirmish at " Haws' Shops," Virginia, he was killed and buried on the field of battle, but afterward taken up and reinterred at Cold Harbor amongst other brave men who gave their lives for their country in the latter famous struggle.His grave is there appropriately marked |