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SHEPARD, Isaac Fitzgerald, soldier, born in Natick, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, 7 July, 1816. He was graduated at Harvard in 1842, was principal of a Boston grammar-school in 1844-'57, and served in the legislature in 1859-'60. He became lieutenant-colonel and senior aide-de-camp to General Nathaniel G. Lyons in 1861, colonel of the 3d Missouri infantry in 1862, and in 1863 colonel of the 1st regiment of Mississippi colored troops, commanding all the colored troops in the Mississippi valley. On 27 October, 1863, he was commissioned brigadier-general of volunteers. He was adjutant-general of Missouri in 1870-'1, and United States consul at Swatow and Hankow, China, in 1874-'86. He was chairman of the Missouri state Republican committee in 1870-'1, and department commander of the Grand army of the republic at the same time. He edited the Boston "Daily Bee" in 1846-'8, the "Missouri Democrat " in 1868-'9, the "Missouri State Atlas" in 1871-'2, and has published "Pebbles from Castalia," poems (Boston, 1840); "Poetry of Feeling" (1844); " Scenes and Songs of Social Life" (1846); " Household Tales' (1861); and several single poems and orations.
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