John W. Cannon
Name: John W. Cannon
Affiliation: Union
Unit: 1st Potomac Home Brigade Inf.; 13th MD Inf.
Race: White
Place of Birth/Residence: Harpers Ferry, Jefferson County, VA
Enlistment Date: 08/07/1862
Company: G (1st & 13th)
Rank at End of Service: Private
Notes:
Transferred to 13th MD Inf., Co. G. Reside of "K" Harpers Ferry on bounty records. Resident of Potomac, Montgomery, MD in 1890.
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 518, page 6; 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); United States Census Bureau, “1890 Special Schedule – Surviving Soldiers, Sailors, and Marines, and Widows, etc.,” [database on-line], Ancestry.com.
