Thomas J. Smith
Name: Thomas J. Smith
Affiliation: Union
Unit: 30th USCT Inf.
Race: African American
Owner's Name: n/a
Place of Birth/Residence: Buckeystown, Frederick County, MD
Enlistment Date: n/a
Slave at Enlistment?: No
Rank at End of Service: Private
Notes:
Enlisted in Frederick, MD; Transferred to the Navy April 1864
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), 286-7; 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].
