George Barnes
Name: George Barnes
Affiliation: Union
Unit: 4th USCT Inf.
Race: African American
Owner's Name: William Lee Norris
Place of Birth/Residence: Middletown, Frederick County, MD
Enlistment Date: 08/11/1863
Company: C
Slave at Enlistment?: Yes
Rank at End of Service: Private
Notes:
Born in Frederick, MD; Manumission recorded 02/17/1864); wounded near Petersburg, VA, 06/15/1864; extra duty on canal at Dutch Gap; mustered out in Washington, D.C.
Source(s):
Records of the Adj. General’s Office, 1780-1971, Record Group 94, Compiled Service Records of Volunteer Union Soldiers who Served with the United States Colored Troops, M1820, National Archives, Washington, DC; Paul and Rita Gordon, Frederick County, Maryland: A Playground of the Civil War (The Heritage Partnership, Frederick, MD: M&B Printing Inc., 1994), 283; Frederick County Land Records [on-line at MDLandRec.net], JWLC 1, page 162.
