George Washington Shatto

Enlisted in Company B, 42nd Regiment Pennsylvania Volunteers (13th Reserves) in Duncannon, Perry County on 6 August 1861.

He later wrote of Antietam that the Colonel [McNeil] and Lt Allison were "Cild" and it was the "hardist fite that I ever was in."

He transferred to 190th Regiment Pennsylvania Volunteers on 31 May 31 1864. Reportedly died while a prisoner of war.

Basic service information from Bates1 with further details from family genealogists and his gravesite on Findagrave. Thanks to GGGrandson Chuck von Schmidt for information from a wartime letter of G.W. Shatto putting him at Antietam.

2/22/1836; Perry County, PA

3/2/1865; Salisbury, NC; burial in Salisbury National Cemetery, Salisbury, NC