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Isaac Ryan

Name: Isaac Ryan

Affiliation: Union

Unit: 19th USCT Inf.

Race: African American

Owner's Name: Harry W. Dorsey

Place of Birth/Residence: New Market, Frederick County, MD

Enlistment Date: 12/09/1863

Company: C

Slave at Enlistment?: Yes

Rank at End of Service: Private

Notes:

Manumission recorded on 8/26/1865; Enlisted in Frederick, MD; Died of dysentary in Field Hospital before Petersburg, VA 7/10/1864


Source(s):

Records of the Adj. General’s Office, 1780-1971, Record Group 94, Compiled Service Records of Volunteer Union Soldiers who Served with the United States Colored Troops, M1822, National Archives, Washington, DC; 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, 190, left; 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," Numer 2901, Record Group 94, Entry 350, National Archives, Washington, DC (digital copy online at Maryland State Archives, MSA-SC-4678); Compiled Military Service Records of Volunteer Union Soldiers, National Archives, Washington, DC, as scanned on Ancestry.com, U.S., Colored Troops Military Service Records, 1861-1865 [database on-line]; (Frederick County Land Records, JWLC 3, page 57.

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