David Latshaw

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Husband David Latshaw ¹

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           Born: Cir 1 Feb 1843 - Irwin Twp, Venango Co, PA
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           Died: 28 Aug 1864 - Andersonville Confederate Prison, Andersonville, GA 2
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         Father: John Latshaw III (1819-1901) 1 3 4
         Mother: Fannie Tinsman (Cir 1820-1875) 1

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General Notes: Husband - David Latshaw

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Civil War: He was a private, Co. K, 64th Reg't., 4th Cavalry. He was captured and died and buried in Andersonville prison, grave #7084.

He enlisted as a volunteer in Company K, 4th Pennsylvania cavalry, at the beginning of the war, and was in the following important engagements: Antietam, Blue Ridge, Fredericksburg, Bull Run, Petersburg and a number of others. He saw distinguished service, and after three years' arduous campaigning, re-enlisted for the rest of the war. Shortly afterwards he was captured, confined for three months in Libby prison, and then transferred to Andersonville, where he died after a ten-month imprisonment, and was buried in the soldiers' cemetery of that place.

1 —, Memoirs of Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, Vol. I (Madison, WI: Northwestern Historical Assosciation, 1904), Pg 389.

2 Samuel P. Bates, History of Pennsylvania Volunteers, 1861-5, Vol. II (Harrisburg, PA: B. Singerly, State Printer, 1869), Pg 560.

3 J. H. Newton, History of Venango County, Pennsylvania (Columbus, OH: J. A. Caldwell Publishers, 1879), Pg 601.

4 John W. Jordan, LL.D., Genealogical and Personal History of the Allegheny Valley, Pennsylvania (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, 1913), Pg 1051.