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Contributed by: Dan Davis Benjamin Franklin Shattuck, Sr. Born July 19, 1841 in Lawrence County, Ohio, Died March 15, 1909 in Montreal Missouri, Buried Freedom Cem, Camden County, MO Following is his Civil War Record as sent to Lt. Colonel George P. Steinmetz from the Dept. of Archives and History at Charlestown, West Virgina on September 21, 1965: Name Benjamin F. Shattuck, Co. E, 5th Infantry Resident or where enrolled: Ceredo, West Virginia Age: 20 Mustered into service: When -Sept. 2, 1864, where- Ceredo, West Virginia (near Hunntington) Date mustered out: ? Memo: Re-enlisted as a Bat. Vol. Dec. 19, 1863, at Camp Reynolds, West Virginia under General Order No. 191, War Dept. Services 1863 Transferred to: Co. E. 1st West Virginia Vol. Infantry by consolidation of 5th and 9th Reg't. West Virginia Infantry 5th Regiment, West Virginia Infantry Organized at Ceredo, W. Va., September 2, 1861, and mustered in October 18, 1861. Served Unattached, District of the Kanawha, West Virginia, to March, 1862. District of Cumberland, Md., Mountain Department, to April, 1862. Milroy's Independent Brigade, Mountain Department, to June, 1862. Milroy's Independent Brigade, 1st Army Corps, Army of Virginia, to September, 1862. Defences of Washington, D. C., to October, 1862. District of the Kanawha, West Virginia, Dept. Ohio, to January, 1863. Unattached, District of the Kanawha, West Virginia, to March, 1863. 1st Brigade, 3rd Division, 8th Army Corps, Middle Department, to June, 1863. 1st Brigade, Scammon's Division, Dept. of West Virginia, to December, 1863. 1st Brigade, 3rd Division, West Virginia, to April, 1864. 1st Brigade, 2nd Infantry Division, West Virginia, to November, 1864.Consolidated with 9th West Virginia Infantry November 9, 1864, to form 1st West Virginia Veteran Infantry. Regiment lost during service 4 Officers and 57 Enlisted men killed and mortally wounded and 2 Officers and 88 Enlisted men by disease. Total 151. |