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Federal (USV)

Private

William L. Bittle

(c. 1842 - ?)

Home State: Pennsylvania

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 124th Pennsylvania Infantry

Before Antietam

Age 20, from Edgmont, he enlisted on 4 August 1862 in Media, and mustered as Private, Company D, 124th Pennsylvania Infantry on 9 August in Harrisburg.

On the Campaign

He was wounded in the leg in action at Antietam on 17 September 1862.

The rest of the War

He mustered out with his Company on 15 May 1863.

References & notes

His service from Bates 1 and the Register.2 Other details from the History.3

Birth

c. 1842

Notes

1 Bates, Samuel Penniman, History of the Pennsylvania Volunteers, 1861-65, Harrisburg: State of Pennsylvania, 1868-1871 [AotW citation 11136]

2 Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Adjutant General's Office, Register of Pennsylvania Volunteers, 1861-1865, 16 volumes, Harrisburg [AotW citation 23878]

3 Green, Robert McCay, compiler, History of the One Hundred and Twenty-fourth Regiment, Pennsylvania Volunteers in the War of the Rebellion 1862-1863, Philadelphia: Ware Brothers Company, printers, 1907, pp. 68, 157 [AotW citation 23879]

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