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John Shanes (1864)

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This Monongalia County native, while serving as a private with the 14th West Virginia Infantry, singlehandedly took out a Confederate fieldpiece at the Battle of Carters Farm, Virginia, on 20 July 1864.

He was born in 1844 and died in 1904 in Brave, Pennsylvania.

John Shanes (1864)