Cabarrus County NcArchives Military Records.....Shive, Martin, Capt. August 16, 1847
Mexican - Letters Co C, N. C. Volunteers,  Mexican War
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Mexican War Death
        (From the Sept. 30, 1847 Charlotte Journal)
               DEATH OF CAPT. MARTIN SHIVE
   We regret to have to announce the death of CAPT. MARTIN SHIVE of Cabarrus 
County, attached to the North Carolina Regiment of Volunteers. The melancholy 
event is announced in the following letter from LIEUT. ARRA to THOMAS S. 
HENDERSON, Esq. at Concord, N. C.
              
"Camp Buena Vista, Mexico
2 0'clock Monday Morning, Aug. 16, 1847

Dear Sir, 
I write these few lines in haste (in order to get it into the mail, which will 
leave very early this morning for Monterey) the painful intelligence of the 
death of our CAPTAIN SHIVE. He died about 12 o'clock last night, with Typhoid 
pneumonika. He was sick only two days. Our Captain was a good officer, and I 
believe a brave man. Please forward this to his family as soon as possible. We 
will bury him so, if necessary, he can be raised againm and I will mark the 
spot of ground.
                                    H. A. ARRA
N. B. The last words he spoke were "Onward Boys and discharge the duty before 
you."

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