Charles Downs
Name: Charles Downs
Affiliation: Union
Unit: 4th USCT Inf.
Race: African American
Owner's Name: Joseph Routzahn
Place of Birth/Residence: Middletown, Frederick County, MD
Enlistment Date: 08/11/1863
Company: I
Slave at Enlistment?: Yes
Rank at End of Service: Private
Notes:
Born in Frederick, MD; Mustered out in Washington, D.C. [8]; Slave for life; Manumitted 03/05/1864 (according to manumission records)
Source(s):
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, M1820, 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), 284; U.S. Adjutant General, Maryland Slave Claims Commission, "Register of Claims, 1864-1867," Number 843, 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 210. Folio online at MDLandRec.Net
