John Byard
Name: John Byard
Affiliation: Union
Unit: 3rd Potomac Home Brigade Inf.; 4th Potomac Home Brigade Inf.
Race: White
Place of Birth/Residence: Frederick County, MD
Enlistment Date: 11/26/1861
Company: E (3rd); C (4th)
Rank at End of Service: Musician
Notes:
Also listed as "John Baird." Veteran. Enlisted in Co. E as a Pvt. Transferred to Co. F on 3/10/1862.
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, roll 255, page 18; L. Allison Wilmer, J. H. Jarrett and Geo. W. F. Vernon, History and Roster of Maryland Volunteers, War of 1861-5 (Baltimore: Guggenheimer, Weil, & Co., 1899); National Park Service, Civil War Soldiers and Sailors System, online at http://www.itd.nps.gov/cwss/index.html; United States Census Bureau, “1860 Federal Census of Frederick Co., MD,” [database on-line], Ancestry.com
