George W. Bentley
Name: George W. Bentley
Affiliation: Union
Unit: 39th USCT Inf.
Race: African American
Owner's Name: Mahlon James
Place of Birth/Residence: Frederick County, MD
Enlistment Date: 03/29/1864
Slave at Enlistment?: Yes
Rank at End of Service: Private
Notes:
Manumission recorded 6/15/1864; Transferred to the Navy in May 1864
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), 283; U.S. Adjutant General, Maryland Slave Claims Commission, "Register of Claims, 1864-1867," Number 1785Record Group 94, Entry 350, National Archives, Washington, DC (digital copy online at Maryland State Archives, MSA-SC-4678); Frederick County Land Records [on-line at MDLandRec.net], JWLC 1, page 644.
