Lafayette Shields

Title

Lafayette Shields

Aliases

Lafayette Johnson

Date

24 November 1863-19 January 1866

Description

Regiment: 62nd USCT
Company: B; D; J [ Companies B & J were consolidated.]
Rank: Private; Duty Sergeant
Enlistment date: 24 November 1863 at Lexington, Lafayette County, Missouri, United States
Mustered-in date: Not listed
Mustered-out date and place: 19 January 1866 at Fort Mcintosh, Laredo, Webb County, Texas, United States

Other locations listed during time of service: Palmito Ranch, Brownsville, Cameron County, Texas, United States; White Ranch, near Brazos Island, Cameron County, Texas, United States; Brazos Island, Cameron County, Texas, United States; Port Hudson, East Baton Rouge Parish, Louisiana, United States
Comrades: George Esery; Levi Dean

Name of spouse: Rachel Davenport; Ishmael Bannister (previous spouse)
Marriage date and place: 13 November 1896 at Lexington, Lafayette County, Missouri, United States

Veteran's birth date and place: 26 October 1831 in Ralls County, Missouri, United States
Veteran's death date and place: 14 December 1909 at Holden, Johnson County, Missouri, United States
Plantation: Not listed
Enslaver: [first name not listed] Shields

Veteran's parents: Not listed
Other family members listed: Not listed

Wife's place of birth: born ~1840
Wife's enslaver: Not listed
Wife's parents: Not listed
Wife's other family members: Not listed

Creator

Department of the Interior Bureau of Pensions

Publisher

National Archives and Records Administration

Type

Document

Format

Portable Document Format

Language

English

Coverage

United States of America

Rights

Public Domain | All records should be cited as coming from the Center Family History at the International African American Museum in Charleston, South Carolina, United States.

Donated by:

Bernice Bennett