Charles Brightwell
Name: Charles Brightwell
Affiliation: Union
Unit: 19th USCT Inf.
Race: African American
Owner's Name: Jesse Wright
Place of Birth/Residence: New Market, Frederick County, MD
Enlistment Date: 01/08/1864
Company: F
Slave at Enlistment?: Yes
Rank at End of Service: Corporal
Notes:
Born in Frederick, MD; Enlisted and manumitted 1/8/1864 (manumission recorded 6/16/1865); Was in action before Petersburg, VA 7/30/1864; Died on 9/13/1864 at hospital at City Point, VA, of typhoid fever;
Source(s):
Maryland 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. 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), 283; U.S. Adjutant General, Maryland Slave Claims Commission, "Register of Claims, 1864-1867," Number 2347, Record Group 94, Entry 350, National Archives, Washington, DC (digital copy online at Maryland State Archives, MSA-SC-4678); Frederick County Land Records, JWLC 2, page 654.
