Today my issue (Series II, Volume I, Number 4) of North & South arrived. In the Forgotten Civil Warriors section is my article William Arthur Shepard--"The Connecticut School Teacher" of the 12th Virginia. Shepard was a Massachusetts-born, Yale-educated member of the 12th's color guard. As the article indicates, after the war he became known to Southerners as "one of the best soldiers we ever saw, who was never known to shirk a fight." The article draws heavily on my latest book, The Petersburg Regiment in the Civil War: A History of the 12th Virginia Infantry from John Brown's Hanging to Appomattox, 1859-1865 (Savas Beatie, 2019), which is receiving good reviews.
William Arthur Shepard
Courtesy of the Flavia Reed Owens Special Collections and Archives,
McGraw-Page Library, Randolph-Macon College, Ashland, VA
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