John M. Bender
Name: John M. Bender
Affiliation: Union
Unit: 126th PA Inf.
Race: White
Place of Birth/Residence: Franklin County, PA
Enlistment Date: 08/05/1862
Company: E
Rank at End of Service: Corporal
Notes:
Enlisted at Waynesboro, PA; Promotions: To Cpl. 12-17-1862; Returned from AWOL 12-07-1862; pardoned and restored to duty 12-07-1862; Discharge: disability; fever and chronic diarrhea 3/2/1863; Unfit for duty for 58 days as of 02-08-1863; unable to fulfill duty during the term of enlistment; Sick, brig. hosp. near Sharpsburg 10-25-1862
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).
