Hanson C. Key
Name: Hanson C. Key
Affiliation: Union
Unit: 4th USCT Inf.
Race: African American
Owner's Name: Jesse T. Clary
Place of Birth/Residence: New Market, Frederick County, MD
Enlistment Date: 08/04/1863
Company: F
Slave at Enlistment?: Yes
Rank at End of Service: Private
Notes:
Manumission recorded on 09/05/1864; Died 10/1865; Slave for 4 years
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), 285; Slave Claims Commission, # 44; 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]; Frederick County Land Records, JWLC 2, page 67.
