John McGruder
Name: John McGruder
Affiliation: Union
Unit: 1st USCT Inf.
Race: African American
Owner's Name: n/a
Place of Birth/Residence: Hagerstown, Washington County, MD
Enlistment Date: 06/25/1863
Company: G
Slave at Enlistment?: No
Rank at End of Service: Private
Notes:
Free as of 04/19/1861; Enlisted in Mason's Island, VA; Single at time of enlistment; Deserted 02/29/1864 at Deep Bottom, VA in front of enemy
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].
