John M. Long
Name: John M. Long
Affiliation: Union
Unit: 2nd MD Vol. Inf.
Race: White
Place of Birth/Residence: Middletown, Frederick County, MD
Enlistment Date: 08/09/1861
Company: G
Rank at End of Service: Captain
Notes:
Entered the service as a private; Promoted to 1st Sgt.; Promoted to 2nd Lt. on 1/1/1863; Promoted to Captain on 5/12/1865; Taken Prisoner 9/30/1864; Listed as John W. on the 1850 Census and 1860 Census
Source(s):
Image from U.S. Army Military History Institute; 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), 95; National Park Service, Civil War Soldiers and Sailors System, online at http://www.itd.nps.gov/cwss/index.html
