THREE-QUARTER STANDING CDV OF GENERAL GEORGE F. SHEPLEY

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Image shows the General in a Napoleonic pose. He wears a dark double-breasted frock coat with black felt collar and cuffs and brigadier general’s shoulder straps.

Image is clear with good contrast. There is light surface dirt from age and storage throughout. Bottom of mount has publishing information with 1862 date and a pencil inscription that reads “SHIPLY OF MA.”

Reverse has ANTHONY FROM A BRADY NEGATIVE back mark with a period pencil inscription that reads “GENL. SHEPLEY MILITARY GOVERNOR OF NEW ORLEANS.”

George Foster Shepley was born in Saco, Maine on January 1, 1819. He studied law at Harvard University, and then received an A.B. from Dartmouth College in 1837. He read law and was admitted to the bar in 1839 and began practice that same year. Shepley was in private practice in Bangor, Maine from 1839 to 1844 and in Portland, Maine from 1844 to 1861. He was a U.S. Attorney for the District of Maine from 1848 to 1849 and from 1853 to 1861.

Shepley joined the army in November 1861 as a colonel of the 12th Maine Volunteer Infantry Regiment. He served as the acting military mayor of New Orleans from May 20, 1862 – July 11, 1862. This appointment lasted less than two months before Shepley was appointed military governor of the occupied parishes of Louisiana from 1862–1864, with the rank of brigadier general. Shepley later served as the first military governor of Richmond, Virginia, the Confederate capital.

After the war, Shepley returned to his private practice in Portland in 1865. He was a member of the Maine House of Representatives from 1866 to 1867, and continued in private practice until 1869. On December 8, 1869, Shepley was nominated by President Ulysses S. Grant to a new seat on the United States circuit court for the First Circuit. He was confirmed by the United States Senate on December 22, 1869, and received his commission the same day. He continued in that office until his death.

He died in Portland, Maine, on July 20, 1878, and is buried at Evergreen Cemetery in that city.  [ad] [ph:L]

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