William J. Bishop
Name: William J. Bishop
Affiliation: Union
Unit: 3rd Potomac Home Brigade Inf.
Race: White
Place of Birth/Residence: Hancock, Washington County, MD
Enlistment Date: 03/09/1864
Company: D
Rank at End of Service: Private
Notes:
Disability incurred: "A little hard hearing."
Source(s):
Maryland Comptroller of the Treasury, "Bounty Rolls, 1864-1880," S629, Maryland State Archives, Annapolis, MD, microfilm copy at Maryland Room, Frederick County Public Libraries, Frederick, MD, roll 218, page 7; L. Allison Wilmer, J. H. Jarrett and Geo. W. F. Vernon, History and Roster of Maryland Volunteers, War of 1861-5 (Baltimore: Guggenheimer, Weil, & Co., 1899); United States Census Bureau, “1890 Special Schedule – Surviving Soldiers, Sailors, and Marines, and Widows, etc.,” [database on-line], Ancestry.com.
