Solomon Bitner
Name: Solomon Bitner
Affiliation: Union
Unit: 158th PA Inf.
Race: White
Place of Birth/Residence: Franklin County, PA
Enlistment Date: 10/16/1862
Company: E
Rank at End of Service: Private
Notes:
Enlisted at Chambersburg, PA; Listed as Cpl. In burial records; Served in Co. D 182nd Pa. 21st Pa. Cav. From 02-10-1864 Through 07-08-1865; absent 04-12-1863 left for home on furlough 03-26-1863; Paroled prisoner sent from Harrisburg Pa. to Annapolis Md. 5/8/1863
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).
