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Thomas W. Cleland

Name: Thomas W. Cleland

Affiliation: Union

Unit: 1st Potomac Home Brigade Cav.

Race: White

Place of Birth/Residence: Boonsboro, Washington County, MD

Enlistment Date: 02/29/1864

Company: H

Rank at End of Service: Corporal

Notes:

Also listed as "Thomas Clelland." "In the Rebel Army" as of 8/1863. MD-born resident of Berkeley Co., VA in 1860 Census. Died 11/12/1864 due to wounds accidentally received. Enlisted as a Pvt.


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 57; 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; Consolidated Lists of Civil War Draft Registrations, 1863-1865, Records of the Provost Marshal General’s Bureau (Civil War), Record Group 110, National Archives, Washington D.C., [database on-line], Ancestry.com.

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