Shell enlisted as a private in Co. G of the 9th Virginia Cavalry on an unknown date. Since he was a medical student at the time of his enlistment, he was assigned in 1862 as a hospital steward at the Huguenot Springs hospital near Richmond, where he served as an apothecary. He took the oath of allegiance and was paroled as a prisoner of war on May 10, 1865.
After the war, he returned to Lunenburg County, VA and was a farmer in 1870 and a horse trader in 1880. By 1900 he had moved to Brunswick County, VA where he was a farmer in 1900 and a dealer in 1910. Shell died on February 27, 1914 and is buried in Oakwood Cemetery in Lawrenceville, VA
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