Richard Newton Gilson
Name: Richard Newton Gilson
Affiliation: Union
Unit: 1st Potomac Home Brigade Cav.
Race: White
Place of Birth/Residence: Emmitsburg, Frederick County, MD
Enlistment Date: 08/27/1862
Company: C
Rank at End of Service: Private
Notes:
Died on 8/3/1864 of wounds sustained in action.
Source(s):
Image from U.S. Army Military History Institute; James A. Helman, History of Emmitsburg, Maryland (Frederick, MD: Citizen Press, 1906), 109.