Frederick Fowler
Name: Frederick Fowler
Affiliation: Union
Unit: 29th CT Vol. Inf.
Race: African American
Owner's Name: n/a
Place of Birth/Residence: New Market, Frederick County, MD
Enlistment Date: 08/18/1863
Company: E
Slave at Enlistment?: No
Rank at End of Service: Private
Notes:
Escaped slavery in 1858; after serving in the war, received honorable discharge and worked in Washington, D.C.; Enlisted in Hartford, CT
Source(s):
Black Defenders of America, 68-9; 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].
