Henry E. Bigler
Name: Henry E. Bigler
Affiliation: Union
Unit: 158th PA Inf.
Race: White
Place of Birth/Residence: Franklin County, PA
Enlistment Date: 10/16/1862
Company: F
Rank at End of Service: Private
Notes:
Enlisted at Chambersburg, PA; taken home from Camp McClure by permission and did not return 11/1862; Service record includes petition for exemption from service, including signed affidavits from doctors in Cumberland Co. Pa. stating that Henry Bigler has inflammatory rheumatism
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).
