Soldier: Christian Bitzer
Regiment: 174th. OVI
Company: A
Age: 30
Date Entering Service: 7/26/1864
Period of Service: 1 year
Remarks (When discharged, re-enlisted, wounded, captured, died of disease or killed):
Mustered out with Company on 6/28/1865. Gunshot to the right leg
Battles in which he fought:
Battle of Overall’s Creek, Tennessee 12/4/1864
Battle of the Cedars, Tennessee 12/5/1864
Battle of Wyse Fork, North Carolina 3/7/1865
Other interesting information discovered:
Christian Bitzer was born in the year 1834 in Germany. He came to America, arriving in New York on 4/25/1854. Christian married Rosena Catherine Much. Three children were born of this union. By 1870 Christian and his family were living in the Cardington, Ohio area. Christian was a carpenter. He collected an invalid’s pension on 7/20/1884. Christian was staying at the US National Home for Disabled Soldiers in Dayton when he died on 11/24/1898.
Date of Death: 11/24/1898 Place of burial: Dayton National Cemetery, Dayton, Ohio
Adopted By: Charlie and Christine Long Researcher: Velda L Montgomery