Samuel Bell
Name: Samuel Bell
Affiliation: Union
Unit: 30th USCT Inf.
Race: African American
Owner's Name: n/a
Place of Birth/Residence: Hancock, Washington County, MD
Enlistment Date: 02/22/1864
Company: D
Slave at Enlistment?: No
Rank at End of Service: Private
Notes:
Enlisted in Ann Arundel, MD; Wounded in Action by a gunshot wound 7/30/1864; Reduced from Corporal 1/1/1865; Service records state that he was free on or before 4/19/1861; Discharged from Louverture Hospital due to physical disability
Source(s):
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, 194 Right; 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].
