Samuel Broom
Name: Samuel Broom
Affiliation: Union
Unit: 19th USCT Inf.
Race: African American
Owner's Name: n/a
Place of Birth/Residence: Hagerstown, Washington County, MD
Enlistment Date: 05/21/1864
Company: F
Slave at Enlistment?: No
Rank at End of Service: Private
Notes:
Enlisted in Frederick, MD; Drafted; Was in action before Petersburg, VA on7/30/1864; Mustered out with regiment at Brownsville, TX
Source(s):
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; Roger Keller, Roster of Civil War Soldiers from Washington County, Maryland (Clearfield Co.: Genealogical Pub. Co., 1998); United States Census Bureau, “1890 Special Schedule – Surviving Soldiers, Sailors, and Marines, and Widows, etc.,” [database on-line], Ancestry.com; 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].
