Perry Cox
Name: Perry Cox
Affiliation: Union
Unit: 5th MA Cav.
Race: African American
Owner's Name: n/a
Place of Birth/Residence: Frederick County, MD
Enlistment Date: 05/11/1864
Company: A
Slave at Enlistment?: No
Rank at End of Service: Private
Notes:
Enlisted in Washington, D.C. (credited to the quota of Cambridge, MA); took a brief furlough (48 hrs) in 1864 to collect his wages from his previous employer
Source(s):
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].
