George Bishop
Name: George Bishop
Affiliation: Union
Unit: 158th PA Inf.
Race: White
Place of Birth/Residence: Franklin County, PA
Enlistment Date: 10/16/1862
Company: H
Rank at End of Service: Private
Notes:
Enlisted at Chambersburg, PA; Apprehended in Fulton Co. 02-10-1863; sent to Forrest Hall prison Washington D. C.; sent to Ft. Ethan Allen Va. 07-31-1863; Deserted: Camp McClure 12/10/1862; Stone General Hospital Washington D. C. 4-13-1863 listed as deserter prisoner under treatment; Died of Disease: Chronic diarrhea, Ft. Bleuker Va. 9/26/1863
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).
