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Alexander Gibbs

Name: Alexander Gibbs

Affiliation: Union

Unit: 4th USCT Inf.

Race: African American

Owner's Name: Jacob Smite[?]

Place of Birth/Residence: Clear Spring, Washington County, MD

Enlistment Date: n/a

Company: G

Slave at Enlistment?: Yes

Notes:

Enlisted in Baltimore, MD


Source(s):

U.S. Adjutant General, Maryland Slave Claims Commission, "Register of Claims, 1864-1867," Number 725, Record Group 94, Entry 350, National Archives, Washington, DC (digital copy online at Maryland State Archives, MSA-SC-4678); 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].

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