Lewis Blake
Name: Lewis Blake
Affiliation: Union
Unit: 4th USCT Inf.
Race: African American
Owner's Name: Elizabeth Owings
Place of Birth/Residence: Westminster, Carroll County, MD
Enlistment Date: 08/04/1863
Company: F
Slave at Enlistment?: Yes
Rank at End of Service: Private
Notes:
Enlisted in Baltimore, MD; Slave for life - his mother was a slave of Elizabeth Owings and he was born while his mother was enslaved; Manumitted 8/4/1863; Died at Yorktown, VA Hospital 12/16/1863 of whooping cough
Source(s):
U.S. Adjutant General, Maryland Slave Claims Commission, "Register of Claims, 1864-1867," Number 689, 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].
