John Brooks
Name: John Brooks
Affiliation: Union
Unit: 30th USCT Inf.
Race: African American
Owner's Name: Job D. Eichelberger
Place of Birth/Residence: Buckeystown, Frederick County, MD
Enlistment Date: 09/06/1864
Company: H
Slave at Enlistment?: Yes
Rank at End of Service: Private
Notes:
Enlisted in Baltimore, MD; Manumission recorded on 9/13/1864; Died in April 1865; Slave for 6 years
Source(s):
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 1957, 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 2, page 77.
