William A. Goings/Goins
Name: William A. Goings/Goins
Affiliation: Union
Unit: 39th USCT Inf.
Race: African American
Owner's Name: James S. Davis
Place of Birth/Residence: Buckeystown, Frederick County, MD
Enlistment Date: 03/22/1864
Company: B
Slave at Enlistment?: Yes
Rank at End of Service: Private
Notes:
Manumission recorded 4/1/1864; Enlisted in Frederick, MD; Discharged due to disability 8/29/1865 in Carolina City, NC
Source(s):
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]; Adjutant General, "Civil War Muster Rolls, 1864-1867," MSA-S-936-51, Folder No. 27, Maryland State Archives, Annapolis, MD; Paul and Rita Gordon, Frederick County, Maryland: A Playground of the Civil War (The Heritage Partnership, Frederick, MD: M&B Printing Inc., 1994), 284; Frederick County Land Records, JWLC 1, page 317.
