George William Brooks
Name: George William Brooks
Affiliation: Union
Unit: 19th USCT Inf.
Race: African American
Owner's Name: William Johnson
Place of Birth/Residence: Adamstown, Frederick County, MD
Enlistment Date: 12/31/1863
Company: D
Slave at Enlistment?: Yes
Rank at End of Service: Private
Notes:
Enlisted and manumitted in Frederick, MD; Died of Lung congestion on 5/13/1864 near Fredericksburg, VA; Manumission recorded 08/24/1865
Source(s):
Adjutant General, "Civil War Muster Rolls, 1864-1867," MSA-S-936-51, Folder No. 55, 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), 283; U.S. Adjutant General, Maryland Slave Claims Commission, "Register of Claims, 1864-1867," Number 2618, 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, pages 45, 46.
