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Civil War
William Pittinger
Sergeant · U.S. Army
Company G, 2d Ohio Infantry
April 1862 · Georgia
- Branch
- U.S. Army
- Era
- Civil War
- Home state
- Ohio
- Action
- Georgia
The citation
Official citation
One of the 19 of 22 men (including 2 civilians) who, by direction of Gen. Mitchell (or Buell), penetrated nearly 200 miles south into enemy territory and captured a railroad train at Big Shanty, Ga., in an attempt to destroy the bridges and tract between Chattanooga and Atlanta.
