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Nathaniel Southgate Shaler (Campbell County, Kentucky, student, teacher, capt 5th Ky Artillery USA)

b. 1841-02-20 d. 1906-04-10

Campbell County, Kentucky, student, soldier, and teacher. Kentucky native. Son of Nathaniel Burger Shaler and Ann Hinde Southgate Shaler. Married to Sophia Penn Page Shaler in 1862. Student in Campbell County, Kentucky, in 1850. Graduated from Harvard University in Cambridge, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, on July 8, 1862. Served in the 5th Kentucky Battery (U.S.A.) as captain.

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Bibliography

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Campbell County, Newport, p. 37A.

Janice Mueller, "Shaler, Nathaniel Southgate" in The Encyclopedia of Northern Kentucky, eds. Paul A. Tenkotte and James C. Claypool (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2009), pp. 820-21.

"Nathaniel S. Shaler," New-York Tribune (New York, NY), April 11, 1906, p. 7.

Michael C.C. Adams, 'When the Man knows Death': The Civil War Poems of Nathaniel Southgate Shaler," in The Register of the Kentucky Historical Society, vol. 96, no. 1 (Winter 1998): pp. 1-28.

"Nathaniel Southgate Shaler (1841-1906)," Find A Grave, Memorial 80775979, accessed November 22, 2022, https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/80775979.

Citation

Shaler, Nathaniel Southgate. Accessed via the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, https://discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/S32207873 (November 12, 2026).

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