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Richard Richardson

Name: Richard Richardson

Affiliation: Union

Unit:

Race: African American

Owner's Name: Samuel Nixdorff

Place of Birth/Residence: Petersville, Frederick County, MD

Enlistment Date: n/a

Slave at Enlistment?: Yes


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; U.S. Adjutant General, Maryland Slave Claims Commission, "Register of Claims, 1864-1867," Number 692, Record Group 94, Entry 350, National Archives, Washington, DC (digital copy online at Maryland State Archives, MSA-SC-4678).

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