Allegheny County PA Archives Obituaries.....Shafer, Joseph McCaskey  September 10, 1862
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Presbyterian banner & advocate. (Pittsburgh, Pa.) 1855-1860: October 18, 1862
Died at Fairfax Seminary Hospital, on the 10th of September, Joseph McCaskey Shafer,
of Co. K, 1st Reg’t. 1st Penn'a. Cavalry, aged 26 years. He bad closed his Junior
year in Jefferson College, when, yielding to a patriotic spirit, he relinquished for
a time his education, in which he had made promising progress to help to preserve
our national life. After enduring the fatigues and dangers of several battles, he
was prostrated with typhoid fever, and died in five days. His brother David having
been taken prisoner, he was necessarily neglected, until the last two days, when,
upon the return of his brother, every attention was paid... 

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