Thomas Smith
Name: Thomas Smith
Affiliation: Union
Unit: 39th USCT Inf.
Race: African American
Owner's Name: David T. Jones
Place of Birth/Residence: Frederick County, MD
Enlistment Date: 03/23/1864
Company: C
Slave at Enlistment?: Yes
Notes:
Manumission recorded 04/01/1864; Enlisted in Frederick, MD; Slave for life
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, right; Adjutant General, "Civil War Muster Rolls, 1864-1867," MSA-S-936-51, Folder No. 27, Maryland State Archives, Annapolis, MD; U.S. Adjutant General, Maryland Slave Claims Commission, "Register of Claims, 1864-1867," Number 1323, 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 Circuit Court, Land Records, Liber JWLC 1, page 316.
