William H. Gaither
Name: William H. Gaither
Affiliation: Union
Unit: 1st USCT Inf.
Race: African American
Owner's Name: n/a
Place of Birth/Residence: Libertytown, Frederick County, MD
Enlistment Date: 05/19/1863
Company: B
Slave at Enlistment?: No
Rank at End of Service: Private
Notes:
Enlisted in Washington, D.C.; Wounded before Petersburg, VA on 6/15/1864; Discharged at Goldsboro, NC w/ certificate of disability; Family P.O. address is Frederick City; Pension records spell last name "Gaiter"
Source(s):
Paul and Rita Gordon, Frederick County, Maryland: A Playground of the Civil War (The Heritage Partnership, Frederick, MD: M&B Printing Inc., 1994), 284; L. Tilden Moore, mss. notes on USCT soldier burial sites, Catoctin Center for Regional Studies, Frederick, 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].
