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UNION BRIG. GENERAL ALEXANDER SHALER
DS- Endorsed NYC pay check $95.00
Shaler, Alexander, brigadier-general. Shaler was
appointed lieutenant-colonel of the 65th regiment, N.
Y. volunteers in June, and became its colonel in July,
1862 serving with distinction in the Army of the
Potomac up to the fall of 1863. He was then given
command of the military prison at Johnson's island,
Ohio, serving through the winter of 1863-64, when he
rejoined the Army of the Potomac, having been
commissioned brigadier-general of volunteers on May
26, 1863. He won the Medal of Honor for gallantry in
storming Marye’s Heights at Fredricksburg. He fought
in all the battles of the Army of the Potomac up to that
of the Wilderness where he was captured and carried a
prisoner of war to Macon Ga. In Charleston, S. C., he
was held during the summer of 1864 a prisoner under
the fire of Federal batteries. He was subsequently
exchanged and commanded a division in the 7th corps
serving in the Southwest until the close of the war, and
was mustered out on Aug. 24, 1865, having received
the brevet of major-general of volunteers on July 27.
DS, 1p, check, endorsed on the verso. $95.00
DS- Endorsed NYC pay check $95.00
Shaler, Alexander, brigadier-general. Shaler was
appointed lieutenant-colonel of the 65th regiment, N.
Y. volunteers in June, and became its colonel in July,
1862 serving with distinction in the Army of the
Potomac up to the fall of 1863. He was then given
command of the military prison at Johnson's island,
Ohio, serving through the winter of 1863-64, when he
rejoined the Army of the Potomac, having been
commissioned brigadier-general of volunteers on May
26, 1863. He won the Medal of Honor for gallantry in
storming Marye’s Heights at Fredricksburg. He fought
in all the battles of the Army of the Potomac up to that
of the Wilderness where he was captured and carried a
prisoner of war to Macon Ga. In Charleston, S. C., he
was held during the summer of 1864 a prisoner under
the fire of Federal batteries. He was subsequently
exchanged and commanded a division in the 7th corps
serving in the Southwest until the close of the war, and
was mustered out on Aug. 24, 1865, having received
the brevet of major-general of volunteers on July 27.
DS, 1p, check, endorsed on the verso. $95.00
