George P. Sprigg
Name: George P. Sprigg
Affiliation: Union
Unit: 19th USCT Inf.
Race: African American
Owner's Name: James H. Smith
Place of Birth/Residence: New Market, Frederick County, MD
Enlistment Date: 01/01/1864
Company: F
Slave at Enlistment?: Yes
Rank at End of Service: Private
Notes:
Manumission recorded 08/28/1865; Died Alexandria, VA; Born in Frederick, MD; was in action before Petersburg, VA on 7/30/1864; Died from chronic diarrhea on 12/1/1864 at L'Ouverture Hospital, Alexandria, VA; Buried in the Freedmen's Cemetery, #106 on 12/1/1864; Re-interred on 1/6/1865 in the Alexandria National Cemetery, Section B
Source(s):
Adjutant General, "Civil War Muster Rolls, 1864-1867," MSA-S-936-51, Folder No. 55, Maryland State Archives, Annapolis, MD; 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, 190, right; The Friends of Freedmen's Cemetery -“Record of Deaths and Burials Among the Freedmen in Alexandria, Virginia,” found on www.freedmenscemetery.org; 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), 287; Frederick County Circuit Court, Land Records, Liber JWLC 3, page 64.
