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George Krebs Shellman

Name: George Krebs Shellman

Affiliation: Confederate

Unit: 1st MD Cav.

Race: White

Place of Birth/Residence: Frederick City, Frederick County, MD

Enlistment Date: 05/21/1861

Company: A

Rank at End of Service: Quarter Master

Notes:

Enlisted in Harpers Ferry, WV; Lawyer in Frederick, MD(postwar); Member of the Army&Navy Society and MD Line Association; Entered Old Soldiers' Home, Pikesville, MD on 6/20/88 at the age of 67; Died 5/25/1891


Source(s):

United States Census Bureau, “1860 Federal Census of Frederick Co., MD,” [database on-line], Ancestry.com; Robert J. Driver, Jr., First and Second Maryland Cavalry, C.S.A. (Charlottesville, VA: Rockbridge Publishing ([an imprint of Howell Press, Inc.], 1999), 511; Paul and Rita Gordon, Frederick County, Maryland: A Playground of the Civil War (The Heritage Partnership, Frederick, MD: M&B Printing Inc., 1994), 306; Daniel D. Hartzler, Marylanders in the Confederacy (Westminster, MD: Family Line Publications, 1986), 268; American Civil War Soldiers [database on-line], Ancestry.com.

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