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Henry Leeks

Name: Henry Leeks

Affiliation: Union

Unit: 4th USCT Inf.

Race: African American

Owner's Name: Daniel Baker

Place of Birth/Residence: Buckeystown, Frederick County, MD

Enlistment Date: 08/11/1863

Company: I

Slave at Enlistment?: Yes

Rank at End of Service: Private

Notes:

Manumission recorded 04/07/1865; Enlisted in Baltimore, MD; Slave for over 12 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; U.S. Adjutant General, Maryland Slave Claims Commission, "Register of Claims, 1864-1867," Number 1093, Record Group 94, Entry 350, National Archives, Washington, DC (digital copy online at Maryland State Archives, MSA-SC-4678); 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 Circuit Court, Land Records, Liber JWLC 2, page 496.

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