Lewis Dorsey
Name: Lewis Dorsey
Affiliation: Union
Unit: 39th USCT Inf.
Race: African American
Owner's Name: David T. Jones
Place of Birth/Residence: Buckeystown, Frederick County, MD
Enlistment Date: 03/24/1864
Company: C
Slave at Enlistment?: Yes
Notes:
Slave for life; Manumitted 04/01/1864
Source(s):
Paul and Rita Gordon, Frederick County, Maryland: A Playground of the Civil War (The Heritage Partnership, Frederick, MD: M&B Printing Inc., 1994), 284; 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, 225, left; Adjutant General, "Civil War Muster Rolls, 1864-1867," MSA-S-936-51, Folder No. 27, Maryland State Archives, Annapolis, MD; U.S. Adjutant General, Maryland Slave Claims Commission, "Register of Claims, 1864-1867,"Number 1324, Record Group 94, Entry 350, National Archives, Washington, DC (digital copy online at Maryland State Archives, MSA-SC-4678); Frederick County Land Records, JWLC 1, page 316.
