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William Brown

Name: William Brown

Affiliation: Union

Unit: 4th USCT Inf.

Race: African American

Owner's Name: n/a

Place of Birth/Residence: Buckeystown, Frederick County, MD

Enlistment Date: 08/04/1863

Company: F

Slave at Enlistment?: No

Rank at End of Service: Private

Notes:

Enlisted in Baltimore, MD; Died 6/26/1864 of pneumonia at the General Hospital in Portsmouth, VA


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; 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].

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