Melville C. Brittain
Name: Melville C. Brittain
Affiliation: Union
Unit: 126th PA Inf.
Race: White
Place of Birth/Residence: Franklin County, PA
Enlistment Date: 08/06/1862
Company: D
Rank at End of Service: Private
Notes:
Enlisted at Chambersburg, PA; Entitled to extra duty pay as clerk in hosp. from 11-28-1862 to 03-27-1863; Provost guard at Gen. Porter's headquarters 09-00-1862; Ward master at brig. hosp. 10-27-1862; Clerk at hosp. at Frederick Md. 11-00-1862 to 02-00-1863; clerk at hosp. at Harper's Ferry 03-00-1863
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).
