Joseph S. Bittinger
Name: Joseph S. Bittinger
Affiliation: Union
Unit: 126th PA Inf.
Race: White
Place of Birth/Residence: Franklin County, PA
Enlistment Date: 08/06/1862
Company: D
Rank at End of Service: Private
Notes:
Enlisted in Chambersburg, PA; Discharge: camp near Falmoth Va., disability by order of Brig. Gen. Butterfield; chronic bronchitis, pneumonia, lung disease 12/7/1862; Unfit for duty for 60 days at time of discharge. "[S]trength will not permit him to do ordinary duties of a soldier."
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).
