Singleton Ryan
Name: Singleton Ryan
Affiliation: Union
Unit: 19th USCT Inf.
Race: African American
Owner's Name: Anthony Z. Kimmel
Place of Birth/Residence: Libertytown, Frederick County, MD
Enlistment Date: 12/31/1863
Company: F
Slave at Enlistment?: Yes
Rank at End of Service: Private
Notes:
Born in Frederick, MD; Manumission recorded 6/6/1864; Transferred to Navy 4/17/1864; Mustered out at Brownsville, TX; Slave for approx. 19 years
Source(s):
Adjutant General, "Civil War Muster Rolls, 1864-1867," MSA-S-936-51, Folder No. 55, Maryland State Archives, Annapolis, MD; Adjutant General, Civil War Muster Rolls, 1860-1867, MSA-S-936-49, folder "19th, Co. F," Maryland State Archives, Annapolis, MD;
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; 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 999, 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 1, page 623.
