Adolphus Harp
Name: Adolphus Harp
Affiliation: Union
Unit: 19th USCT Inf.
Race: African American
Owner's Name: Dennis D.H. & Joanna Clemson
Place of Birth/Residence: Johnsville, Frederick County, MD
Enlistment Date: 06/13/1864
Company: I
Slave at Enlistment?: Yes
Rank at End of Service: Private
Notes:
Enlisted and manumitted in Baltimore, MD 6/13/1864 (manumission recorded 8/8/1864); Wounded in action at Cemetery Hill, VA 7/30/1864; Discharged by reason of disability from a wound acquired in action on 7/30/1864
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; U.S. Adjutant General, Maryland Slave Claims Commission, "Register of Claims, 1864-1867," Number 2047, 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]; Frederick County Land Records, JWLC 2, page 16.
