Lewis Dawley, Company B, 1st U.S. Colored Cavalry wrote a letter to the Pension Bureau on letterhead belonging to the Grand Army of the Republic (GAR). Click on the image to view the entire letter.
Shaw Post was among 59 GAR Posts in Virginia and North Carolina as of July 27, 1871.
See also Peter C. Adams, Company C [ceremonial swords] (posted November 26, 2018) and Grand Army of the Republic Hall, Lynn, Massachusetts (posted September 16, 2019).
Sgt. James Walden – 2nd Cav. and a GAR president, Winton chapter, is buried on the farm next to ours. He married an ancestral first cousin and may be a relative as well.
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