James Brown
Name: James Brown
Affiliation: Union
Unit: 38th USCT Inf.
Race: African American
Owner's Name: n/a
Place of Birth/Residence: Washington County, MD
Enlistment Date: 09/01/1864
Company: D
Slave at Enlistment?: No
Rank at End of Service: Private
Notes:
Enlisted in Norfolk, VA; Discharged for disability (accidentally received from a gun shot in the right thorax) in Baltimore, MD on 1/17/1866; Service records mistakenly report him as dead from disease in 1865
Source(s):
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].
