Alfred Snowden
Name: Alfred Snowden
Affiliation: Union
Unit: 39th USCT Inf.
Race: African American
Owner's Name: Robert M. Gill
Place of Birth/Residence: Fountain Mills, Frederick County, MD
Enlistment Date: 03/31/1864
Company: D
Slave at Enlistment?: Yes
Rank at End of Service: Private
Notes:
Slave for life
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), 287; U.S. Adjutant General, Maryland Slave Claims Commission, "Register of Claims, 1864-1867," Number 1661, Record Group 94, Entry 350, National Archives, Washington, DC (digital copy online at Maryland State Archives, MSA-SC-4678).
