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Richard M. McSherry

Name: Richard M. McSherry

Affiliation: Confederate

Unit: 1st VA Cav.; 1st MD Cav.; Brigade Signal Corps

Race: White

Place of Birth/Residence: Frederick, Frederick County, MD

Enlistment Date: 05/10/1863

Company: K (VA & MD)

Rank at End of Service: Private

Notes:

Transferred to Brigade Signal Corps on 5/10/1863. Transferred to 1st MD Cav. on 8/1864.


Source(s):

Paul and Rita Gordon, Frederick County, Maryland: A Playground of the Civil War (The Heritage Partnership, Frederick, MD: M&B Printing Inc., 1994), 300; Daniel D. Hartzler, Marylanders in the Confederacy (Westminster, MD: Family Line Publications, 1986), 215; Robert J. Driver, Jr., First and Second Maryland Cavalry, C.S.A. (Charlottesville, VA: Rockbridge Publishing ([an imprint of Howell Press, Inc.], 1999).

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