George M. E. Shearer
Name: George M. E. Shearer
Affiliation: Confederate
Unit: "Davis'" Battalion of MD Cav.; 1st MD Cav.; 1st MD Inf.;
Race: White
Place of Birth/Residence: Frederick City, Frederick County, MD
Enlistment Date: 05/21/1861
Company: D (Davis'); A (Inf.)
Rank at End of Service: 1st Lieutenant & Drillmaster
Notes:
Captured in Hagerstown, MD in 7/5/1864 at the age of 23; Left Frederick, MD with Bradley Johnson; Born in BAVA
Source(s):
United States Census Bureau, “1860 Federal Census of Frederick Co., MD,” [database on-line], Ancestry.com; (Driver, 510); Robert J. Driver, Jr., First and Second Maryland Cavalry, C.S.A. (Charlottesville, VA: Rockbridge Publishing ([an imprint of Howell Press, Inc.], 1999), 282; Paul and Rita Gordon, Frederick County, Maryland: A Playground of the Civil War (The Heritage Partnership, Frederick, MD: M&B Printing Inc., 1994), 306; Daniel D. Hartzler, Marylanders in the Confederacy (Westminster, MD: Family Line Publications, 1986), 267.
