Father: Dushee Shaw (1792-1863)
Mother: Effie Gilchrist (1801-1883)
1856 - M.D. degree, Jefferson Medical College, Philadelphia, PA (from TX)
07/25/1860 - Practiced medicine, Beat No. 7, Rusk Co, TX (single, living with the S. C. Clerdy family - indexed in the 1860 U.S. Census as Daniel Shaw)
05/00/1861 - Enlisted, Rusk Co, TX (from Camden, TX)
06/13/1861 - Mustered into service, Dallas, TX
06/13/1861 - Pvt., Co. B., 3rd TX Cavalry, Provisional Army of the Confederate States
12/00/1861 - Asst. Surgeon, 3rd TX Cavalry (also known as Capt. R. H. Cumby's Co, South Kansas Texas Regiment of Mounted Volunteers)
05/30/1862 - Surgeon, 3rd TX Cavalry, Corinth, MS
06/10/1862 - Surgeon, 3rd TX Cavalry, Camp, Tupelo, MS
06/23/1862 - Passed Army Board of Medical Examination for the position of Surgeon, Tupelo, MS
09/26/1862 - Appointed Surgeon, Provisional Army of the Confederate States, to rank from 06/23/1862
09/26/1862 - Confirmed as Surgeon by the Confederate States Senate
04/06/1863 - Sick - [temporarily] replaced by Surgeon Jesse W. Hill
05/01/1863 - Surgeon, 3rd TX Cavalry, Springhill, TN
05/18/1863 - Surgeon, 3rd TX Cavalry, [?Canton, MS]
05/22/1863 - Father, Dushee, died in Harrison Co., TX (buried:
06/00/1863 - Surgeon, 3rd TX Cavalry
08/00/1863 - Surgeon, 3rd TX Cavalry
10/00/1863 - Absent, sick
03/00/1864 - "Has been absent six months, want another Surgeon !"
06/30/1864 - Absent, sick
09/19/1864 - "Surgeon Daniel Shaw, Third Regiment Texas Volunteers, will have his name dropped from the rolls as a supernumerary medical officer, and will from this day cease to be an officer of the Provisional Army of the Confederate States"
~1867 - Married Esther Louise Wadsworth (1847-1891)
08/01/1870 - Physician & Farmer, Rusk Co, TX (lived with wife, Esther, and two children - indexed in the 1870 U.S. Census as Daniel Shaw)
1874 - Practiced medicine, Camden, Gregg Co, TX
1875 - Died, Longview, Gregg Co., TX (buried: Greenwood Cemetery, Longview, Gregg Co, TX)
~1880 - Widow, Esther, married D. D. Durham, a tie contractor
02/08/1891 - Widow, Esther, died in Texas (buried: Greenwood Cemetery, Longview, Gregg Co., TX)

Note: The year of birth on Dr. Shaw's gravestone is incorrect. Also, this physician's gravestone is engraved as Daniel W. Shaw, but the biographers could find no evidence that he had a middle name or a middle initial.

Significant information for this biography was provided by Bob Krick and Kelly K.

This biographical sketch is from:
Hambrecht, F.T. & Koste, J.L., Biographical
register of physicians who served the
Confederacy in a medical capacity.
11/21/2012. Updated 07/11/2019.
Unpublished database.