Charles E. Costley
Name: Charles E. Costley
Affiliation: Union
Unit: 4th USCT Inf.
Race: African American
Owner's Name: William Jones
Place of Birth/Residence: Mt. Pleasant, Frederick County, MD
Enlistment Date: 08/11/1863
Company: C
Slave at Enlistment?: Yes
Rank at End of Service: Private
Notes:
Manumission recorded 02/16/1864; Died in June 1865 [1]; Slave for over 7 years [6]
Source(s):
Paul and Rita Gordon, Frederick County, Maryland: A Playground of the Civil War (The Heritage Partnership, Frederick, MD: M&B Printing Inc., 1994), 283; U.S. Adjutant General, Maryland Slave Claims Commission, "Register of Claims, 1864-1867," Number 171, Record Group 94, Entry 350, National Archives, Washington, DC (digital copy online at Maryland State Archives, MSA-SC-4678); Frederick County Land Records [on-line at MDLandRec.net], JWLC 1, page 159.
