James W. Jackson
Name: James W. Jackson
Affiliation: Union
Unit: 4th USCT Inf.
Race: African American
Owner's Name: n/a
Place of Birth/Residence: Libertytown, Frederick County, MD
Enlistment Date: n/a
Company: K
Slave at Enlistment?: No
Rank at End of Service: 1st Sergeant
Notes:
Enlisted in Baltimore, MD; According to MD State Archives, he was enlisted in the 19th U.S.C.T. Inf., Co. B
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), 285; L. Tilden Moore, mss. notes on USCT soldier burial sites, Catoctin Center for Regional Studies, Frederick, MD; 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].
