Samuel M. Beard
Name: Samuel M. Beard
Affiliation: Union
Unit: 1st Potomac Home Brigade Inf.; 13th MD Inf.
Race: White
Place of Birth/Residence: Clear Spring, Washington County, MD
Enlistment Date: 08/21/1861
Company: F (1st & 13th)
Rank at End of Service: 1st Lieutenant
Notes:
Enlisted as a Private. Re-Enlisted as a Veteran. Promoted First Lieutenant for 13th MD Inf., Co. F on 2/24/1865.
Source(s):
L. Allison Wilmer, J. H. Jarrett and Geo. W. F. Vernon, History and Roster of Maryland Volunteers, War of 1861-5, Volume 1 (Baltimore: Guggenheimer, Weil, & Co., 1899), 446, 510; Roger Keller, Roster of Civil War Soldiers from Washington County, Maryland (Clearfield Co.: Genealogical Pub. Co., 1998); John Thomas Scharf, History of Western Maryland, Volume I (Philadelphia: L.H. Everts, 1882), 327; 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, roll 39, page 2; L. Allison Wilmer, J. H. Jarrett and Geo. W. F. Vernon, History and Roster of Maryland Volunteers, War of 1861-5 (Baltimore: Guggenheimer, Weil, & Co., 1899); United States Census Bureau, “1860 Federal Census of Washington, Co., MD,” [database on-line], Ancestry.com.