Soldier:   Christian Bitzer

Regiment:  174^th. 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