Shafer, Joseph McCaskey

DIED--At Fairfax Seminary Hospital, on the 10th of September, JOSEPH McCASKEY SHAFER, of the 1st Penn's Cavalry, aged 26 years.

He had 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; but, alas! the spirit took its flight, leaving a widowed mother and sisters and brothers to mourn. All who knew the deceased, will regret the removal of a mild, promising young man of a Christian spirit, who was not permitted by the nature of his disease, to express the hope that had borne him up in life. To mourning brothers and sisters, it may be said, "Thy brother shall live again."
---S. C. J.

Presbyterian Banner, Pittsburgh, PA 18 Oct 1862