James Buckingham
Name: James Buckingham
Affiliation: Union
Unit: 23rd USCT Inf.
Race: African American
Owner's Name: n/a
Place of Birth/Residence: Frederick County, MD
Enlistment Date: 03/21/1864
Company: F
Slave at Enlistment?: No
Rank at End of Service: Private
Notes:
Enlisted in Washington, D.C.; Service records mistakenly state that he deserted 8/5/1864
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].
