Lt. Col George Washington Shattuck

Civil War Ancestor of Sidney Gaddy

George W. Shattuck was born August 28, 1835, in Switzerland County, Indiana. George was the son of Simeon N. and Judith (Dewitt) Shattuck, and the first of seven children. The Shattuck family moved from Switzerland County, Indiana, to Lawrence County, Ohio, in 1839. George Shattuck was reared on the home farm, where he received a common school education, which was supplemented by two years of study in Ewington Academy. After leaving that institution he engaged in teaching, doing successful work in the line during five winter terms and thereafter giving his attention to agricultural pursuits, in Ohio, until the inception of the Civil War, when he subordinated all other interests to the call of the Union and tendered aid in its defense.

On July 4, 1861, George W. Shattuck enlisted, for three months, as a member of a company known as the First Independent Cavalry, commanded by Capt. John S. George. At the expiration of his term he received an honorable discharge, after which he returned home.

Soon afterward, on November 6, 1861, he reenlisted, becoming a member of Company H, Sixth Ohio Cavalry, being mustered in as Second Lieutenant, to which office he received his commission December 16, 1861. He was, for a brief period of time, on the Staff of General Sigel, and served under General Sheridan. For gallant and meritorious service he was later promoted to First Lieutenant on May 9, 1864, to Captain on November 12, 1864, Major on April 8, 1865, and to Lt Col on July 30, 1865. He was Mustered out with Company on August 7, 1865. He received a gunshot wound in the right foot at an engagement at Ladd's Farm, Virginia. In the Battle of Dinwiddle Courthouse, Virginia, March 31, 1865, he received a severe wound, which incapacitated him for further field service, as the war closed before he had recuperated.

On November 6, 1861, George Shattuck married Miss Eliza Little, who was born in Ireland, and who was a resident of Ohio at the time of their marriage. This union produced 5 children born between 1864 and 1871.

After the Civil War Lt Col Shattuck returned to his home in Ohio, where he was engaged in farming until 1870, when he was appointed railroad station-agent at Center Station, in Lawrence County, where he remained until 1872. In 1872 the Shattuck family moved to Vernon County, Wisconsin, where they settled in the town of Stark.

Lt. Col George W. Shattuck died at the home of his daughter, Mary Jane, Mrs. Charles Henry Steinmetz, in R.R. LaFarge Wisconsin, on April 26, 1913, at 10:30 a.m.

Submitted by Sid Gaddy, March 28, 2001