""The following is an extract from the "Confederate Veteran," the official organ of the United Confederate Veterans and published at Nashville, Tenn. The issue from which this extract was copied was dated December 1910.

H. D. Shaw

            "H. D. Shaw, whose death occurred at his home, in Carrollton, Miss., in May 1909, was born in Philadelphia, Pa. seventy-five years ago, his father being from Massachusetts and his mother a Virginian. He came South when a mere boy.

Thoroughly imbued with the principles of pure patriotism and wedded to the State of his adoption, he enlisted as a private in one of the first regiments to be mustered in from Mississippi. As a non-commissioned officer he was in active service in different branches of the army, both in Virginia and the Western Army, to the close and to the end of his life remained true to the principles for which he had suffered. The last work of his active life, at the age of seventy, was to devote his entire time to the raising of the fund with which to erect a monument to the twenty-seven hundred Confederate soldiers who enlisted from Carroll County, Miss. This he accomplished, and had the satisfaction of taking part in the unveiling of that monument now standing in Court Square, and one of the handsomest of its kind in the State.""