William Banks
Name: William Banks
Affiliation: Union
Unit: 2nd PA Arty., 112th Regt.
Race: White
Place of Birth/Residence: Franklin County, PA
Enlistment Date: 10/29/1862
Company: Battery C
Rank at End of Service: Private
Notes:
Enlisted in Chambersburg, PA; Deserted: Fort Bunker Hill, Washington, DC. 4/26/1863; Discharge: near Petersburg, Va., dishonorable discharge. 11/10/1865; Notes: Returned from desertion, 12-05-1863. Confined in Fort Delaware upon return; Place of Birth: Baltimore Co., Md.
Source(s):
Soldiers’ Records for Franklin County, Pennsylvania, on the website “Valley of the Shadow: Two Communities in the American Civil War,” Virginia Center for Digital History, University of Virginia (http://valley.lib.virginia.edu/dossiers).
