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Peter B. Housum

Name: Peter B. Housum

Affiliation: Union

Unit: 2nd PA Inf.; 77th PA Inf.

Race: White

Place of Birth/Residence: Franklin County, PA

Enlistment Date: 04/20/1861

Company: A (2nd)

Rank at End of Service: Captain

Notes:

Enlisted in Chambersburg, PA

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)

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