George Chambers
Name: George Chambers
Affiliation: Union
Unit: 19th USCT Inf.
Race: African American
Owner's Name: Charles E. Worthington
Place of Birth/Residence: New Market, Frederick County, MD
Enlistment Date: 01/01/1864
Company: Non-Commissioned Staff; G
Slave at Enlistment?: Yes
Rank at End of Service: Chief Musician
Notes:
Born in Frederick, MD; Manumission recorded 8/19/1865; On 9/01/1865 transferred (promoted) to Regt. Non Com Staff as Chief Musician, 19th USCT
Source(s):
Adjutant General, "Civil War Muster Rolls, 1864-1867," MSA-S-936-51, Folder No. 55, Maryland State Archives, Annapolis, MD; Adjutant General, Civil War Muster Rolls, 1860-1867, MSA-S-936-49, Folder "Field Staff, 19th," Maryland State Archives, Annapolis, MD; Records of the Adj. General’s Office, 1780-1971, Record Group 94, Compiled Service Records of Volunteer Union Soldiers who Served with the United States Colored Troops, M1822, National Archives, Washington, DC; Paul and Rita Gordon, Frederick County, Maryland: A Playground of the Civil War (The Heritage Partnership, Frederick, MD: M&B Printing Inc., 1994), 283; 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]; Frederick County Land Records, JWLC 3, Folio 43, online at MDLandRec.net.
