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Shattuck was the grandson of Captain Job Shattuck, of Shays' Rebellion. Job Shattuck had been a captain in the War of the Revolution, and he was always an earnest patriot. He was also a man of wealth, having large possessions in land, and being wholly exempt from the pecuniary distresses that harassed the majority of men, from the close of the war to the close of the century.
It was one of the Shattucks: he says, 'There's a ship come ashore up by Barnegat' I says, 'No, I says: 'the guns are from off the inlet. So I runs one way, and Shattuck the other. The night was dark as pitch, and the storm drivin' like hell.
They say that Stonewall Jackson never sleeps, and they make no mistake, when they call his infantry foot cavalry!" Dick was silent. He shared his leader's intense disappointment, but he knew that it was not for him to speak at this moment. "Mr. Shattuck," said Colonel Winchester, "how near do you think we can approach without being seen?"
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