Simon Perkins
Name: Simon Perkins
Affiliation: Union
Unit: 28th USCT Inf.
Race: African American
Owner's Name: Mary Clagett
Place of Birth/Residence: Petersville, Frederick County, MD
Enlistment Date: 08/03/1864
Company: E
Slave at Enlistment?: Yes
Rank at End of Service: Private
Notes:
Manumission recorded 04/29/1865; Enlisted in Frederick, MD; Drafted; Deserted 05/26/1865; MD State Archives states that he was born in Washington County, Maryland
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), 286;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]; Frederick County Circuit Court, Land Records, Liber JWLC 2, page 565.
