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Virginia Military Institute Archives 2002 Virginia Military Institute Archives Staff Web version of the finding aid funded in part by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities. Archives, Preston Library, Virginia Military Institute Descriptive Summary Archives, Preston Library, Virginia Military Institute Edward C. Shepherd Collection 1851-1855 mss 00019 The collection consists of six items. English Administrative Information Access

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Edward C. Shepherd Collection, mss 00019, Virginia Military Institute Archives, Lexington, Virginia

 Biographical/Historical Information

Edward Clarence Shepherd was born 24 July 1835 at Shepherdstown, West Virginia. He matriculated at the Virginia Military Institute on 4 August 1851 and graduated 4 July 1855, standing 8th of 16. After completing his education he became a teacher.

During the Civil War Shepherd enlisted 22 October 1861 at Centreville, Virginia as a Private, Company B, 2nd Virginia Infantry Regiment. He married Amelia Adelaid Shock of Baltimore, Maryland on 17 August 1870 and they had four children--Anna Isabelle (b. 1871 d. 1877), Edward Clarence, Jr. (b. 1876), Clinton Webb (b. 1880), and George Randolph (b. 1883 d. 1903). He continued his career as an educator and was Professor of Math, Frederick College (Maryland). Shepherd died 19 August 1907 at Frederick, Maryland.

 Scope and Content Information

The collection contains three notebooks, two miscellaneous documents, and an annotated analytical geometry text that belonged to Virginia Military Institute Cadet Edward C. Shepherd during his years as a VMI student, 1851-1855. The first notebook contains approximately 50 pen and ink, hand-tinted drawings by Shepherd; these were completed as assignments for VMI courses and some bear the signature of Superintendent Francis H. Smith (" Examined correct, F.H. Smith"). This book also includes a pencil sketch of VMI Barracks room number 14, depicting roommates playing cards. The second notebook includes VMI class notes for mathematics; it also includes poetry, roommate lists, and misc. notes. The third notebook is a VMI Cadet account book listing school expenses, 1851-1855. Miscellaneous documents consist of a letter of appointment to VMI (1851) and a guard report (1853).