David Besore
Name: David Besore
Affiliation: Union
Unit: 16th PA Cav., 161st Regt.
Race: White
Place of Birth/Residence: Franklin County, PA
Enlistment Date: 09/22/1862
Company: H
Rank at End of Service: Private
Notes:
Enlisted at Chambersburg, PA; Born in Chambersburg, PA; Deserted: Caledonia Furnace. 7/8/1863; Returned from desertion, 08-18-1863; Discharge: Lynchburg, VA, by General Order # 83. 6/16/1865
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).
