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Pittenger’s Family

Posted by Jeanette on Monday, 25 May, 2009

Names from DARING AND SUFFERING: A HISTORY OF THE GREAT RAILROAD ADVENTURE BY LIEUT. WILLIAM PITTENGER, ONE OF THE ADVENTURERS (see the bibliographic record at Project Gutenberg and download if you wish). The Introduction author describes a bit of  Mr. Pittenger’s family and path to the railroad adventure:

William Pittenger, b. 31 Jan 1840, Jefferson Co. Ohio, son of Thomas Pittenger. His mother’s family were the Mills’s. He was under the command of Colonel Harris in the Ohio 2nd, and General Mitchell after transferring to a division encamped at Louisville.

Two other names in the introduction:
Chaplain Gaddis of the Ohio 2nd
Rev. Capt. J. J. Geer

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Union Railroad Adventure

Posted by Jeanette on Monday, 25 May, 2009

Names from DARING AND SUFFERING: A HISTORY OF THE GREAT RAILROAD ADVENTURE BY LIEUT. WILLIAM PITTENGER, ONE OF THE ADVENTURERS (see the bibliographic record at Project Gutenberg and download if you wish). This book describes the adventurers’ roles in the Union’s run to destroy the Georgia State Railroad during the Civil War. It is easiest to copy the names here as they are listed in the book:

NAMES OF THE ADVENTURERS.
EXECUTED.
J. J. Andrews,Leader, Citizen of Kentucky.
William Campbell, Citizen of Kentucky.
George D. Wilson, Co. B, Second Reg’t Ohio Vols.
Marion A. Ross, Co. A, Second Reg’t Ohio Vols.
Perry G. Shadrack, Co. K, Second Reg’t Ohio Vols.
Samuel Slavens, Thirty-third Reg’t Ohio Vols.
Samuel Robinson, Co. G, Thirty-third Reg’t Ohio Vols.
John Scott, Co. K, Twenty-first Reg’t Ohio Vols.
ESCAPED IN OCTOBER.
W. W. Brown, Co. F, Twenty-first Reg’t Ohio Vols.
William Knight, Co. E, Twenty-first Reg’t Ohio Vols.
J. R. Porter, Co. C, Twenty-first Reg’t Ohio Vols.
Mark Wood, Co. C, Twenty-first Reg’t Ohio Vols.
J. A. Wilson, Co. C, Twenty-first Reg’t Ohio Vols.
M. J. Hawkins, Co. A, Thirty-third Reg’t Ohio Vols.
John Wollam, Co. C, Thirty-third Reg’t Ohio Vols.
D. A. Dorsey, Co. H, Thirty-third Reg’t Ohio Vols.
EXCHANGED IN MARCH.
Jacob Parrott, Co. K, Thirty-third Reg’t Ohio Vols.
Robert Buffum, Co. H, Twenty-first Reg’t Ohio Vols.
William Bensinger, Co. G, Twenty-first Reg’t Ohio Vols.
William Reddick, Co. B, Thirty-third Reg’t Ohio Vols.
E. H. Mason, Co. K, Twenty-first Reg’t Ohio Vols.
William Pittenger, Co. G, Second Reg’t Ohio Vols.

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