Research
William Samuel Adams
Name: William Samuel Adams
Affiliation: Union
Unit: 19th USCT Inf.
Race: African American
Owner's Name: Samuel Burgee
Place of Birth/Residence: Urbana, Frederick County, MD
Enlistment Date: 12/31/1863
Company: D
Slave at Enlistment?: Yes
Rank at End of Service: Private
Notes:
Enlisted at Monocacy Junction, MD.
Source(s):
Maryland Adjutant General, "Civil War Muster Rolls, 1864-1867," MSA-S-936-51, Folder No. 55, Maryland State Archives, Annapolis, MD; Compiled Military Service Records of Volunteer Union Soldiers, National Archives, Washington, DC, as scanned on Ancestry.com, U.S., Colored Troops Military Service Records, 1861-1865 [database on-line]; Frederick County Land Records [on-line at MDLandRec.net], JWLC 1, page 615; Paul and Rita Gordon, Frederick County, Maryland: A Playground of the Civil War (The Heritage Partnership, Frederick, MD: M&B Printing Inc., 1994), 282; U.S. Adjutant General, Maryland Slave Claims Commission, "Register of Claims, 1864-1867," Number 69, Record Group 94, Entry 350, National Archives, Washington, DC (digital copy online at Maryland State Archives, MSA-SC-4678); National Park Service, Civil War Soldiers and Sailors System, online at http://www.itd.nps.gov/cwss/index.html.
