George Holmes
Name: George Holmes
Affiliation: Union
Unit: 19th USCT Inf.
Race: African American
Owner's Name: n/a
Place of Birth/Residence: Carroll County, MD
Enlistment Date: 01/12/1864
Company: F
Slave at Enlistment?: No
Rank at End of Service: Private
Notes:
Wounded in the hand by a Minie ball during the battle at Petersburg, VA - his hand was amputated; Receieved certificate of discharge for medical reasons
Source(s):
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].
