Rueben Johnson
Name: Rueben Johnson
Affiliation: Union
Unit: 4th USCT Inf.
Race: African American
Owner's Name: Thomas B. Franklin
Place of Birth/Residence: Carroll County, MD
Enlistment Date: 08/11/1863
Company: H
Slave at Enlistment?: Yes
Rank at End of Service: Private
Notes:
Enlisted in Baltimore, MD. Transferred to Navy 4/23/1864.
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]; 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.
