HARVEY MILO SHAW -- 91st and 96thINFANTRYTRIED TWICE - On May 24, 1821, Harvey Milo Shaw was born in Plattsburghto Abram Shaw and Sally Beckwith, both of whom were children ofRevolutionary War Soldiers. In 1850, Harvey was living next door to hisparents with his wife Lucinda and was working on their Schuyler Fallsfarm. Abram died in July 1861 and by the end of October, Harvey was aprivate in Company H in the 96th Infantry under the command of CaptainNicholas Day.Harvey was only in the regiment for six months before he was dischargedfor disability in Washington. He came home to Schuyler Falls and onSeptember 4, 1864, was mustered in as a private in the 91st Infantry.Or this enlistment, he received a town bounty of \$800. Before the yearwas up, he was sick in the Emory General Hospital in Washington afterthe Battle of Fair Oaks which was one of the battles meant to containLee and his forces in Richmond. The Schuyler Falls Town Clerk's Recordsof 1865, say he went on the Appomattox Campaign, and never mustered outwith his regiment but was discharged on June 6, 1865.Harvey returned home to Schuyler Falls and his wife, Lucinda Maxfield,and son, Victor, who was born in January 1864. He took over his parents'farm and his mother died in 1871. She was buried in the Union Cemeteryin Morrisonville under the same stone as her husband. In 1894, afterselling the farm, he moved to Connecticut to be with Victor.
