Lewis Sprague
Name: Lewis Sprague
Affiliation: Union
Unit: 30th USCT Inf.
Race: African American
Owner's Name: Abraham Willard
Place of Birth/Residence: Middletown, Frederick County, MD
Enlistment Date: 03/10/1864
Company: G
Slave at Enlistment?: Yes
Rank at End of Service: Private
Notes:
Manumission recorded 03/18/1864; Enlisted in Frederick, MD; Slave owner, Abraham Willard died and Peter Willard signed the manumission records
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, 210, right; Paul and Rita Gordon, Frederick County, Maryland: A Playground of the Civil War (The Heritage Partnership, Frederick, MD: M&B Printing Inc., 1994), 287; Adjutant General, "Civil War Muster Rolls, 1864-1867," MSA-S-936-51, Folder No. 6, Maryland State Archives, Annapolis, MD; 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, pages 247, 248.
