Shepley, George Foster

Life Span
to
Full name
George Foster Shepley
Place of Birth
Saco, ME
Burial Place
Portland, ME
Birth Date Certainty
Exact
Death Date Certainty
Exact
Gender
Male
Race
White
Sectional choice
North
Origins
Free State
No. of Siblings
2
No. of Spouses
2
No. of Children
4
Family
Ether Shepley (father), Ann Foster Shepley (mother), Lucy Ann Hayes (first wife), Helen Merrill (second wife)
Education
Harvard
Other
Other Education
Dartmouth College (NH)
Occupation
Politician
Military
Attorney or Judge
Relation to Slavery
White non-slaveholder
Political Parties
Democratic
Government
Polk Administration (1845-49)
Buchanan Administration (1857-61)
Grant Administration (1869-77)
Federal Court
Governor
State legislature
Local government
Military
Union Army
Date Event
In Richmond, teenaged Union officer Johnston De Peyster hoists the Stars and Stripes over the Confederate Capitol
Date Title
George F. Shepley to Abraham Lincoln, Tuesday, December 09, 1862
George F. Shepley, Orders for the Occupation of Richmond, Virginia, April 1865
Date Title
Abraham Lincoln to Reverdy Johnson, Washington, DC, July 26, 1862
Abraham Lincoln to Nathaniel Prentice Banks, August 5, 1863
Date Title
Abraham Lincoln to George Foster Shepley, November 21, 1862
How to Cite This Page: "Shepley, George Foster," House Divided: The Civil War Research Engine at Dickinson College, https://hd.housedivided.dickinson.edu/index.php/node/40354.