William Nick Currens
Name: William Nick Currens
Affiliation: Union
Unit: 1st Potomac Home Brigade Cav.
Race: White
Place of Birth/Residence: Uniontown, Carroll County, MD
Enlistment Date: 08/27/1861
Company: C
Rank at End of Service: Regimental Commisary Sergeant
Notes:
Enlisted as a Pvt. Promoted Cpl. 6/10/1862; Sgt. 5/7/1864; Regt. Comsy. Sgt. 9/1/1864. Veteran volunteer.
Source(s):
Image from U.S. Army Military History Institute; Maryland Comptroller of the Treasury, "Bounty Rolls, 1864-1880," S629, Maryland State Archives, Annapolis, MD, microfilm copy at Maryland Room, Frederick County Public Libraries, Frederick, MD, roll 30, page 2; L. Allison Wilmer, J. H. Jarrett and Geo. W. F. Vernon, History and Roster of Maryland Volunteers, War of 1861-5 (Baltimore: Guggenheimer, Weil, & Co., 1899); United States Census Bureau, “1870 Federal Census of Carroll, Co., MD,” [database on-line], Ancestry.com.
