John B. Dorsey
Name: John B. Dorsey
Affiliation: Union
Unit: 4th USCT Inf.
Race: African American
Owner's Name: Joshua Baseman
Place of Birth/Residence: Carroll County, MD
Enlistment Date: 08/11/1863
Company: I
Slave at Enlistment?: Yes
Notes:
Died 3/25/1864 from wounds received at Cox Bridge, VA
Source(s):
Nancy M. Warner, Ralph B. Levering, and Margaret Taylor, Carroll County Maryland: A History 1837-1976 (Carroll, MD: Carroll County Bicentennial Committee, 1976), 83; Carroll County Genealogical Society - Tabular Statement of Ownership of Certain Slaves in Carroll County, Maryland [a list of those enslaved in 1864, tabulated in 1867], copy in possession of Carroll County Genealogical Society, Westminster, MD.
