John H. Shields
Name: John H. Shields
Affiliation: Union
Unit: 6th MD Inf.
Race: White
Place of Birth/Residence: Hagerstown, Washington County, MD
Enlistment Date: 08/21/1862
Company: H
Rank at End of Service: Corporal
Notes:
Discharged for disability 2/3/1865; Wounded by a sharpshooter at Spotsylvania, VA on 5/9/1864 and lost an arm
Source(s):
Roger Keller, Roster of Civil War Soldiers from Washington County, Maryland (Clearfield Co.: Genealogical Pub. Co., 1998); James A. Helman, History of Emmitsburg, Maryland (Frederick, MD: Citizen Press, 1906), 108; United States Census Bureau, “1890 Special Schedule – Surviving Soldiers, Sailors, and Marines, and Widows, etc.,” [database on-line], Ancestry.com.
