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Jacob B. Cassidy

Name: Jacob B. Cassidy

Affiliation: Union

Unit: 1st Potomac Home Brigade Cav.

Race: White

Place of Birth/Residence: Washington County, MD

Enlistment Date: 02/26/1864

Company: G

Rank at End of Service: Private

Notes:

Also listed as "Jacob B. Cassady/Casady." Died 6/25/1864 from a disease contracted in service.


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 240, page 38; 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.

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