A. J. Shaw, Private, Company I, McCord’s Mounted Regiment Texas State Volunteers,* enrolled December 13, 1862 at Camp Colorado, last recorded at end of year 1864 as absent, with leave since November 16, a March 1865 Regimental Return records as deserted at Camp near Bastrof, March 19, no further records

Note, with no other records we have no way of ascertaining his further status. Men were frequently recorded as having deserted having no knowledge of the true reason for their absence.

* Also known as McCord’s Frontier Regiment Texas Cavalry

Compiled Service Records of Confederate Soldiers Who Served in Organizations from the State of Texas