John Williams
Name: John 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: 01/01/1864
Company: E
Slave at Enlistment?: Yes
Rank at End of Service: Private
Notes:
Born in Frederick, MD; Lives 9 miles from Frederick City; Slave of Harry Dorsey; Promoted to Corporal on 1/8/1866; Reduced in the ranks on 6/11/1864
Source(s):
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. E," 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; U.S. Adjutant General, Maryland Slave Claims Commission, "Register of Claims, 1864-1867," Number 2904, Record Group 94, Entry 350, National Archives, Washington, DC (digital copy online at Maryland State Archives, MSA-SC-4678); L. Tilden Moore, mss. Notes on USCT soldier burial sites, Catoctin Center for Regional Studies, Frederick, 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].
