John A. Baker
Name: John A. Baker
Affiliation: Union
Unit: 1st Potomac Home Brigade Cav.
Race: White
Place of Birth/Residence: Emmitsburg, Frederick County, MD
Enlistment Date: 02/24/1864
Company: H; F
Rank at End of Service: Private
Notes:
Disability incurred: "Frozen Feet."
Source(s):
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, roll 257, page 22; L. Allison Wilmer, J. H. Jarrett and Geo. W. F. Vernon, History and Roster of Maryland Volunteers, War of 1861-5 (Baltimore: Guggenheimer, Weil, & Co., 1899); National Park Service, Civil War Soldiers and Sailors System, online at http://www.itd.nps.gov/cwss/index.html; United States Census Bureau, “1890 Special Schedule – Surviving Soldiers, Sailors, and Marines, and Widows, etc.,” [database on-line], Ancestry.com.
