To all whom it may concern

Know ye that William M(?). Bechtell a Sergeant of Captain H. B. Vannerman’s Company, “G”, 84^th regiment of Indiana Infantry Volunteers who was enrolled on the fourteenth day of August one thousand eight hundred and sixty-two to serve three years or during the war, is hereby discharged from the service of the United States this fourteenth day of June 1865 at Camp Harker Tennessee by reason of Instruction of the war Dept., dated May 2_, 1865  (No objection to his being re-enlisted is known to exist.)

Said William M. Bechtell was born in Henry County in the state of Indiana, is eighteen years of age, five feet seven inches high, dark complexion, black eyes, dark hair, and by occupation when enrolled a farmer.

Given at Camp Harker, Ten, this fourteenth day of June, 1865.

(*This sentence will be erased should    John T. Harris

there be anything in the conduct or                    Capt. 20^th Ind. Batg. A.C.M. 1^st Div. 4 a.c.

physical condition of the soldier             Commanding the Regt.

rendering him unfit for the Army.)

[A.G.O. No. 99]

H. B. Vannerman

Capt. Co. G 84^th Ind.                                                                                                  

The above discharge was recorded August 13, 1866

                        Cyrus Stanley, Recorder of Jay Co., Ind.