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Dr. Henry Elliot Shepherd

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22478
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Dr. Henry Elliot Shepherd was born in Fayetteville, North Carolina in 1844. A graduate of Davidson College, the Military Academy at Charlotte, and the University of Virginia, Shepherd also served on the battlefield during the American Civil War. Advancing to the rank of First Lieutenant of Infantry in the Forty-Third North Carolina troops, Shepherd was the youngest commissioned officer in the Confederate Army. Shepherd returned home after being wounded at Gettysburg and held captive by the Union Army, later making a name for himself as college professor, president, and superintendent.
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