Joseph Bostic
Name: Joseph Bostic
Affiliation: Union
Unit: 19th USCT Inf.
Race: African American
Owner's Name: n/a
Place of Birth/Residence: Frederick County, MD
Enlistment Date: 12/19/1863
Company: C
Slave at Enlistment?: No
Rank at End of Service: Private
Notes:
Married; Residence before enlistment was Moravia Depot, MD; Enlisted in Fredericksburg, VA; Died 10/12/1864, at L'Ouverture Hospital, Alexandria, VA, of consumption; Alternate spellings of last name, "Bostwick" and "Bostick"
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, 178 Left; Service Records, M1822; 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]; The Friends of Freedmen's Cemetery -“Record of Deaths and Burials Among the Freedmen in Alexandria, Virginia,” found on www.freedmenscemetery.org; 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].
