Frank Shubert
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Frank Shubert (12 January 1841 – 24 December 1920) was a second lieutenant in the United States Army who was awarded the Medal of Honor for gallantry at the Third Battle of Petersburg in Virginia during the American Civil War.
Personal life
Shubert was born in the Grand Duchy of Hesse, in the modern-day state of Hesse, Germany on 12 January 1841. He immigrated to the United States in 1858 and applied for citizenship in Fonda, New York. He worked for a year on a farm in Palatine Bridge, New York and learned the shoemaking profession in Canajoharie, New York. He married Cecilia M. Lettice Shubert and fathered four children. After the war, he ran a shoe store in Canajoharie that still stands on Church Street. He died on 24 December 1920 and was buried in Prospect Hill Cemetery in Canajoharie.
In 2012, a shawl was discovered that Cecilia Shubert had made for her son. It has since been returned to Shubert's descendants.
Military service
Shubert enlisted in the Army as a sergeant on 15 August 1861 in Canajoharie and was mustered into Company E of the 43rd New York Infantry on 31 August.
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