Daniel Williams
Name: Daniel Williams
Affiliation: Union
Unit: 19th USCT Inf.
Race: African American
Owner's Name: Harry W. Dorsey
Place of Birth/Residence: New Market, Frederick County, MD
Enlistment Date: 12/31/1863
Company: G
Slave at Enlistment?: Yes
Rank at End of Service: Sergeant
Notes:
Manumission recorded 08/26/1865; Enlisted in Frederick, MD; MIA 07/30/1864 in front of Petersburg; KIA in July
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, 192, right; Adjutant General, "Civil War Muster Rolls, 1864-1867," MSA-S-936-51, Folder No. 55, Maryland State Archives, Annapolis, MD; Adjutant General, Civil War Muster Rolls, 1860-1867, MSA-S-936-49, Folder "19th, Co. G," Maryland State Archives, Annapolis, MD; 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 2902, 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 Land Records, JWLC 3, page 56.
