Zachariah Butcher
Name: Zachariah Butcher
Affiliation: Union
Unit: 19th USCT Inf.
Race: African American
Owner's Name: n/a
Place of Birth/Residence: Frederick County, MD
Enlistment Date: 12/09/1863
Company: C
Slave at Enlistment?: No
Rank at End of Service: Private
Notes:
Enlisted in Frederick, MD; Deserted from Camp Birney, MD on 4/18/1864; Returned from desertion 6/7/1864; Deserted while home on furlough 2/20/1866; Wounded while a volunteer at the battle of Cemetery Hill, VA
Source(s):
Maryland Comptroller of the Treasury, "Bounty Rolls, 1864-1880," S629, Maryland State Archives, Annapolis, MD, microfilm copy at Maryland Room, Frederick County Public Libraries, Frederick, MD, 178, left; 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].; 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].
