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10, 1863. He commanded a brigade, Army of the Potomac, ia the Virginia Teuiusular campaign ; corn man Jed a division in the battle of Malvern Hill ; commanded a brigade in the Northern Vir- ginia campaign and in the Maryland campaign. He was brevetted lieutenant-colonel, Sept. 14, 1862, for gallantry at South Mountain, Md., and colonel, Sept. 17, 1802. for meritorious conduct at Antietam, Md. He was chief of staff of artillery in the department of the South. 1802-64 ; com- manded a division on Folly Island, S.C, July 4, 1863 ; was severely wounded in the assault of Fort Wagner. July 18, 1863 ; was at the battle of Morris Island, and commanded the forces at Hilton Head, S.C, Ft. Pulaski, Ga., and Tybee and St. Helena islands, 1863-64. He commanded the expedition to Olustee, Fla., Feb. 5-lG, 1864; was in command of the District of Florida, Feb- ruary-March, 1864, and commanded a brigade, 6th army corps. Army of the Potomac. May 4-6,

1864. He was captured in the battle of the Wil- derness, May 6, 1864, and was held as prisoner of war till Aug. 9, 1864. He commanded a division, 6th army corps in the operations in the Shenan- doah valley, October-December, 1864 ; and in the Richmond campaign, 1864-65. He was brevetted major-general U.S.V., March 13, 1865, for ability and energy in handling his division, and for gal- lantry and valuable services inaction ; brigadier- general U.S.A., March 13, 1865, for conduct at the capture of Petersburg, and major-general, March 13. 1865. for services in the field during the rebel- lion. He was present at the battle of Sailor's Creek, and at the surrender of General Lee at Appomatto.x, April 9, 1865, and was mustered out of volunteer service, Aug. 24, 1865. He com- manded the troops at Key West, Fla., 1865-66 ; was promoted major of 5th artillery, Aug. 13, 1866; and commanded Fort Warren, Mass., 1869- 70, and Fort Preble, Me., 1870-75. He was re- tired from active service, Nov. 1, 1876, and traveled abroad. The honorary degree of A.M. was conferred on him by Williams college in

1865. H.' died in Florence, Italy, Oct. 30, 1891. SHACKELFORD, James M., soldier, was born

in Lincoln county, Ky., July 7, 1827; son of Edmund and Susan (Thompson) Shackelford, and grandson of Samuel and Charlotte Shackel- ford. He attended an academy at Springfield, Ky. ; served in the %var with Mexico as 1st lieu- tenant, 4th Kentucky volunteers ; was admitted to the bar in 1853, and in September, 1861, was commissioned colonel of the 25th Kentucky Union volunteer regiment, and fought at Fort Donel- son, Feb. 6, 1862, in the first brigade of Lew Wallace's division. Later he was made colonel of the 8th Kentucky cavalry, and was promoted brigadier-general, March 17, 1863. In July, 1863, when Geu. John U. Morgan, the Confederate

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and some that ized by Burnside Ky. He led them

raider, crossed the Cumberland river near Burks- ville, he was met by the Union forces, who fol- lowed him, and pressed the pursuit across the Ohio river into Indiana and thence to Ohio, riding through the suburbs of Cincinnati across to Buffington Island. Shackelford had pressed Morgan so hard that there was very little op- portunity to cross, and 700 prisoners were taken. Morgan himself escaped with the 300 men re- maining, and was pursued to Saline- ville, Ohio, where, July 26, 1864, Shackelford cap- tured the whole party of 364 men before they could enter Pennsyl- vania. Later in August, 1863,

Shackelford took those regiments had been organ- at Camp Nelson, into East Tennessee, through Williamsburg and Big Creek Gap to Kingston. Burnside then sta- tioned his forces at Knoxville and Shackelford moved on, and took Cumberland Gap, capturing 2500 prisoners under General Frazer. He con- tinued to Virginia, drove all of the Confederates out of the valley and returned to Knoxville where Burnside was concentrating to meet Longstreet. General Shackelford's cavalry was confined in the fort during the three weeks of the siege and then with 4000 cavalry he pursued Longstreet up the valley, fighting a hard battle at Bean's Station. He subsequently made his home in Indiana and was a presidential elector from that state on the Garfield and Arthur ticket in 1880, and on the Harrison and Morton ticket in 1888. President Harrison appointed him judge of the U.S. court in the Indian Territory in 1889, and he served four years on the bench. In 1893 he was appointed attorney for the Choctaw nation.

SHAFER, Helen Almira, educator, was born in Newark, N.J., Sept. 23, 1839 ; daughter of the Rev. Archibald S. and Almira (Miller) Shafer ; granddaughter of Isaac and Elizabeth (Turner) Shafer and of Juilge Joseph T. and Elizabeth (Sud- land) Salmon Miller, and a descendant of John, a Revolutionary soldier, and Sarah (Allen) Miller. She moved with her parents to Oberlin, Ohio ; attended private schools, and was graduated from Oberlin college, A.B., 1863. She was an instruc- tor in mathematics, Central high school of St. Louis, Mo., 1865-75 ; professor of matliematics in Wellesley college, Mass., 1877-88. and president of the college from 1888 until her death, when she was succeeded by Mrs. Julia J. Irvine. She received the honorary degree of A.M. from Ober- lin in 1878, and that of LL.D. in 1«93, being the