Franklin Mitchell
Name: Franklin Mitchell
Affiliation: Union
Unit: 39th USCT Inf.
Race: African American
Owner's Name: Otho Thomas
Place of Birth/Residence: Buckeystown, Frederick County, MD
Enlistment Date: 03/29/1864
Company: F
Slave at Enlistment?: Yes
Rank at End of Service: Private
Notes:
Enlisted and manumitted 3/29/1864 (manumission recorded 08/26/1865); Transferred to the Navy; Died 06/1864
Source(s):
Maryland Comptroller of the Treasury, "Bounty Rolls, 1864-1880," S629, Maryland State Archives, Annapolis, MD, microfilm copy at Maryland Room, Frederick County Public Libraries, Frederick, MD, 227, right; Adjutant General, "Civil War Muster Rolls, 1864-1867," MSA-S-936-51, Folder No. 55; Maryland State Archives, Annapolis, MD; 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 2999, Record Group 94, Entry 350, National Archives, Washington, DC (digital copy online at Maryland State Archives, MSA-SC-4678); Frederick County Circuit Court, Land Records, Liber JWLC 3, page 58.
