James R. Edemy
Name: James R. Edemy
Affiliation: Union
Unit: 19th USCT Inf.
Race: African American
Owner's Name: n/a
Place of Birth/Residence: Weverton, Washington County, MD
Enlistment Date: 05/23/1864
Company: K
Slave at Enlistment?: No
Rank at End of Service: Private
Notes:
Drafted in Frederick, MD; Wounded during the battle of Petersburg, VA; Discharged due to amputation of left index, middle, ring fingers
Source(s):
Roger Keller, Roster of Civil War Soldiers from Washington County, Maryland (Clearfield Co.: Genealogical Pub. Co., 1998); L. Allison Wilmer, J. H. Jarrett and Geo. W. F. Vernon, History and Roster of Maryland Volunteers, War of 1861-5, Volume 2 (Baltimore: Guggenheimer, Weil, & Co., 1899), 231; United States Census Bureau, “1890 Special Schedule – Surviving Soldiers, Sailors, and Marines, and Widows, etc.,” [database on-line], Ancestry.com; Adjutant General, Civil War Muster Rolls, 1860-1867, MSA-S-936-49, Folder "19th, Co. K," Maryland State Archives, Annapolis, MD; 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].
