Adam Laws
Name: Adam Laws
Affiliation: Union
Unit: 19th USCT Inf.
Race: African American
Owner's Name: n/a
Place of Birth/Residence: Pittsburgh, Allegheny County, PA
Enlistment Date: 12/09/1863
Company: D; C
Slave at Enlistment?: No
Rank at End of Service: 1st Sergeant
Notes:
Enlisted in Frederick County, MD;Transferred from Company D on 7/31/1865 because he had been reduced in ranks within Company D on 5/1/1864
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]; 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, 179, left; 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, M1822, National Archives, Washington, DC.
