Hiram P. Bittinger
Name: Hiram P. Bittinger
Affiliation: Union
Unit: 126th PA Inf.
Race: White
Place of Birth/Residence: Franklin County, PA
Enlistment Date: 07/28/1862
Company: A
Rank at End of Service: Private
Notes:
Enlisted at Chambersburg, PA; Absent 10-30-1862; Deserted: Snickerville Va. 11/3/1862; Sick, brig. hosp. 10-30-1862; Application for removal of charge of desertion and for honorable discharge denied by Record and Pension Office of War Department 07-18-1887
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).