David Beard
Name: David Beard
Affiliation: Union
Unit: 3rd PA Cav., 60th Regt.
Race: White
Place of Birth/Residence: Franklin County, PA
Enlistment Date: 08/08/1861
Company: H
Rank at End of Service: Private
Notes:
Enlisted at Newville, PA; Promotions: Reduced to ranks, 10-09-1861; Discharge: Camp Marcy, Va., Anchylosis of right thumb, sufficient to prevent his cocking a carbine with the right hand. Preexisting condition. 3/2/1862; detached duty as hosp. clerk 11-01-1861 to 03-05-1862
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).
