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Charles Dorsey

Name: Charles Dorsey

Affiliation: Union

Unit: 4th USCT Inf.

Race: African American

Owner's Name: Elias Lingling

Place of Birth/Residence: New Windsor, Carroll County, MD

Enlistment Date: 08/04/1863

Company: J

Slave at Enlistment?: Yes

Rank at End of Service: Private

Notes:

Enlisted in Baltimore, MD; Slave on extra duty in Dutch Gap, VA since 8/9/1864; Died of pneumonia at Point of Rocks Hospital in VA, 2/9/1865


Source(s):

U.S. Adjutant General, Maryland Slave Claims Commission, "Register of Claims, 1864-1867," Number 2278, 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].

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