Daniel Link
Name: Daniel Link
Affiliation: Union
Unit: 1st MD Vol. "Cole's" Cav., Potomac Home Brigade
Race: White
Place of Birth/Residence: Frederick City, Frederick County, MD
Enlistment Date: 08/10/1861
Company: A
Rank at End of Service: Captain
Notes:
Entered the service as a private in Co. C; Promoted to 2nd Lt. 3/11/1864; Promoted to Capt. 2/1/1865
Source(s):
United States Census Bureau, “1860 Federal Census of Frederick Co., MD,” [database on-line], Ancestry.com; L. Allison Wilmer, J. H. Jarrett and Geo. W. F. Vernon, History and Roster of Maryland Volunteers, War of 1861-5, Volume 1 (Baltimore: Guggenheimer, Weil, & Co., 1899), 666; Paul and Rita Gordon, Frederick County, Maryland: A Playground of the Civil War (The Heritage Partnership, Frederick, MD: M&B Printing Inc., 1994), 314; Daniel Carroll Toomey and Charles Albert Earp, Marylanders in Blue, the Artillery and the Cavalry (Toomey Press, 1999), 141.
