Augustus Cook
Name: Augustus Cook
Affiliation: Union
Unit: 4th USCT Inf.
Race: African American
Owner's Name: B.W. Binnett
Place of Birth/Residence: Carroll County, MD
Enlistment Date: 08/11/1863
Company: H
Slave at Enlistment?: Yes
Notes:
Slave for life [6]; Enlisted in Baltimore, MD
Source(s):
U.S. Adjutant General, Maryland Slave Claims Commission, "Register of Claims, 1864-1867," Number 38, Record Group 94, Entry 350, National Archives, Washington, DC (digital copy online at Maryland State Archives, MSA-SC-4678); 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].
