Francis Roberts
Name: Francis Roberts
Affiliation: Union
Unit: 6th USCT Inf.
Race: African American
Owner's Name: Samuel J. Turnbull
Place of Birth/Residence: New Market, Frederick County, MD
Enlistment Date: n/a
Company: D
Slave at Enlistment?: Yes
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), 286; U.S. Adjutant General, Maryland Slave Claims Commission, "Register of Claims, 1864-1867," Number 2606, Record Group 94, Entry 350, National Archives, Washington, DC (digital copy online at Maryland State Archives, MSA-SC-4678).
