William Pittinger

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1840-01-31

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1904-04-24

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"William Pittinger" in the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/N00010602, (accessed April 23, 2024).

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Knoxville, Jefferson County, Ohio, school teacher and sergeant (U.S.A). Ohio native. Son of Thomas Pittenger and Mary Mills Pittenger. Resident Knoxville, Ohio in 1850. School teacher in Knoxville, Ohio in 1860. Appointed Sergeant in the Second Regiment Ohio Volunteer Infantry (U.S.A) on September 5, 1861. Mustered out at Anderson Station, Tennessee on August 14, 1863. Awarded Medal of Honor on March 23, 1863.

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Ohio, Jefferson County, Knoxville, p. 1001. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Ohio, Jefferson County, Knoxville, p. 100. Find A Grave, "William Pittenger (January 30, 1840-April 24, 1904)," Memorial # 19686, https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/19686 (accessed April 30, 2019). Official Roster of the Soldiers of the State of Ohio in the War of the Rebellion, 1861-1866, vol. 2, 1st-20th Regiments-Infantry (Cincinnati: Wilstach, Baldwin & Co, 1886), 50 (accessed via HaitiTrust). “Pittenger, William,” Medal of Honor Recipients: Civil War (M-Z), U.S. Army Center of Military History (https://history.army.mil/html/moh/civwarmz.html).

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