William H. Bell
Name: William H. Bell
Affiliation: Union
Unit: 4th USCT Inf.
Race: African American
Owner's Name: n/a
Place of Birth/Residence: Frederick County, MD
Enlistment Date: 08/11/1863
Company: H
Slave at Enlistment?: No
Rank at End of Service: Corporal
Notes:
Enlisted in Baltimore, MD; Wounded in Action (gun shot wound to the right leg) before Petersburg, VA on 6/16/1864; Service records state that he was free on or before 4/19/1861; Discharged for disability on 6/25/1865
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].
