Thomas Potts
Name: Thomas Potts
Affiliation: Union
Unit: 39th USCT Inf.
Race: African American
Owner's Name: Benjamin, Jr. Moffitt
Place of Birth/Residence: Jefferson, Frederick County, MD
Enlistment Date: n/a
Company: J
Slave at Enlistment?: Yes
Rank at End of Service: Corporal
Notes:
Manumission recorded 8/22/1865
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, 228, left; Adjutant General, "Civil War Muster Rolls, 1864-1867," MSA-S-936-51, Folder No. 27, 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), 286; U.S. Adjutant General, Maryland Slave Claims Commission, "Register of Claims, 1864-1867," Number 2701, Record Group 94, Entry 350, National Archives, Washington, DC (digital copy online at Maryland State Archives, MSA-SC-4678); L. Tilden Moore, mss. Notes on USCT soldier burial sites, Catoctin Center for Regional Studies, Frederick, MD; Frederick County Land Records, JWLC 3, page 47. Folio online at MDLandRec.Net
