SHEPLEY, George Foster

Affiliation:  Union

Born: January 1 1819, Saco ME

Died: July 20 1878, Portland ME

Pre-War Profession: Lawyer, US district attorney for Maine

War Service: November 1861 Col. of 12th Maine, New Orleans, military governor of Louisiana, July 1862 appointed Brig. Gen. of Volunteers, commanded Dist of Eastern Virginia, military governor of Richmond

Post War: Lawyer, judge