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The Bergin House hotel was run in the 1860s by Billy Bergin’s father, William B. Bergin. Billy grew up around the hotel, and would later commit there the murder that sent him to the gallows.
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If Colonel Henry B. Banning had checked, he would have discovered that Billy Bergin was lying about his age in order to enlist in the army. Banning didn’t check.
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One of the few surviving examples of the regimental flag of the 121st Ohio Volunteer Infantry. Bill Bergin served in Company A.
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Billy Bergin’s regiment, the 121st OVI, was part of the XIV Corps, part of the combined army led on the Atlanta Campaign by General William Tecumseh Sherman.
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It was when the Union Army was securing the Allatoona Hills area northwest of Atlanta that Private William Bergin got shot in the wrist by a Confederate bullet.
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A Civil War surgeon’s kit like this would have been used to remove the lower half of Billy Bergin’s arm. He was still only 15 at the time.
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After years of restlessness, Bergin ended up serving on a surveying crew like this, doing the first land surveys of the west.
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The Civil War training site Camp Dennison was located just outside Cincinnati. Bill Bergin joined the army here, even though he was only 15.
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