| If this website has been useful to you, please consider
making a Donation.
Your support will help keep this website free for everyone, and will allow us to do
more research. Thank you for your support! |
Civil War Soldiers - Shepley
| Shepley, George F., brigadier-general,
U.S. Army, was born in Saco, Me., Jan. 1, 1819. He was graduated at
Dartmouth college in 1837, and after studying law at the Harvard law
school he began practice in Bangor, Me., but in 1844 removed to
Portland. In 1850 he was elected to the state senate, and from 1853 to
June, 1861, he was United States district attorney for Maine, having
been appointed to that office by President Pierce and continued in it
by President Buchanan. In 1860 he was a delegate at large to the
national Democratic convention at Charleston, and attended its
adjourned session at Baltimore. In the autumn of 1861 he became
colonel of the 12th Me. volunteers, with which he arrived at Ship
island in Feb., 1862. He was then placed in command of the 3d brigade,
and on the occupation of New Orleans he was made military commandant
of that city. In June, 1862, he was appointed governor of Louisiana,
and in July was made a brigadier-general of volunteers. After the
inauguration of a civil governor of Louisiana Gen. Shepley was placed
in command of the military district of Eastern Virginia. He afterward
became chief of staff to Maj.-Gen. Weitzel, and for a short time
during the absence of that officer commanded the 25th army corps. He
continued with the Army of the James to the end of the war, and after
the entry into Richmond he was made the first military governor of
that city. He resigned his commission in the army on July 1, 1865, and
in 1866 he was elected as a Republican to the Maine legislature. In
1869 he was appointed United States circuit judge for the 1st circuit,
in which position he continued till the time of his death, that event
occurring at Portland, Me., on July 20, 1878. Source: The Union Army: A History of Military Affairs in the Loyal
States 1861-1865, Volume 8 Biographical, 1908
|
|
Whats New
Bibliography
About Us |