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AN HISTORIC CIVIL WAR PRESENTATION SWORD
Col. Geo. F. Shepley. 12th Me. Regt. From his brethren of the Cumberland Bar.
Curved double fullered blade with two etched panels of scrolls and panoply-of-arms, marked Klingenthal along back edge. German silver hilt cast with American Eagle and floral scroll motifs, the grip with the grotesque head of Medusa, surmounted with a floral wreath border pommel cap. Wire wrapped ray-skin grip. Inscribed along back edge of grip Col Geo. F. Shepley 12th Me. Regt. From his brethren of the Cumberland Bar. Steel sheath with three mounts with floral motifs.
34 inch blade.
George Foster Shepley (born Saco, Maine 1819 - died Portland, Maine 1878). Graduating from Dartmouth in 1837, he began his law practice in Bangor, Maine in 1839. Served as U.S. District Attorney for Maine 1848-49. Commanded the 12th Maine Volunteers in 1861, and served as Military Commandant of New Orleans 1862. Men under his command were the first to enter Libby Prison. In charge of the defenses of New Orleans, he was appointed Military Governor of Louisiana 1862-64. Later under the command of General Weitzel of the XXV Army Corps, he was appointed Military Governor of Richmond. After the war he was a U.S. Court circuit judge overseeing equity and patent cases.
Col. Geo. F. Shepley. 12th Me. Regt. From his brethren of the Cumberland Bar.
Curved double fullered blade with two etched panels of scrolls and panoply-of-arms, marked Klingenthal along back edge. German silver hilt cast with American Eagle and floral scroll motifs, the grip with the grotesque head of Medusa, surmounted with a floral wreath border pommel cap. Wire wrapped ray-skin grip. Inscribed along back edge of grip Col Geo. F. Shepley 12th Me. Regt. From his brethren of the Cumberland Bar. Steel sheath with three mounts with floral motifs.
34 inch blade.
George Foster Shepley (born Saco, Maine 1819 - died Portland, Maine 1878). Graduating from Dartmouth in 1837, he began his law practice in Bangor, Maine in 1839. Served as U.S. District Attorney for Maine 1848-49. Commanded the 12th Maine Volunteers in 1861, and served as Military Commandant of New Orleans 1862. Men under his command were the first to enter Libby Prison. In charge of the defenses of New Orleans, he was appointed Military Governor of Louisiana 1862-64. Later under the command of General Weitzel of the XXV Army Corps, he was appointed Military Governor of Richmond. After the war he was a U.S. Court circuit judge overseeing equity and patent cases.