Wild Oats cartoonist W.H. Shelton

Artist on the Rocks, W.H. Shelton magazine illustration William Henry Shelton was born in Allen’s Hill, Ontario County, New York, in 1840. He enlisted in the Union Army in 1860, was captured in Virginia at the Battle of the Wilderness, escaped from a prison camp in Charleston, and fought until the end in 1865. He served as a captain of cavalry. After the war he assisted in the founding of the