Samuel Bentley
Name: Samuel Bentley
Affiliation: Union
Unit: 4th USCT Inf.
Race: African American
Owner's Name: n/a
Place of Birth/Residence: Clear Spring, Washington County, MD
Enlistment Date: 08/28/1863
Company: K
Slave at Enlistment?: No
Rank at End of Service: Private
Notes:
Enlisted in Baltimore, MD; Service records state that he was free on or before 4/19/1861; Wounded in Action in New Market, VA on 9/29/1864; Deserted 1/16/1865
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].
