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William Waters

Name: William Waters

Affiliation: Union

Unit: 39th USCT Inf.

Race: African American

Owner's Name: Isaiah Mealy

Place of Birth/Residence: New Market, Frederick County, MD

Enlistment Date: 03/31/1864

Company: H

Slave at Enlistment?: Yes

Rank at End of Service: Private

Notes:

Manumission recorded 11/19/1864; Transferred to the Navy


Source(s):

Adjutant General, "Civil War Muster Rolls, 1864-1867," MSA-S-936-51, Folder No. 55, Maryland State Archives, Annapolis, MD; Paul and Rita Gordon, Frederick County, Maryland: A Playground of the Civil War (The Heritage Partnership, Frederick, MD: M&B Printing Inc., 1994), 287; U.S. Adjutant General, Maryland Slave Claims Commission, "Register of Claims, 1864-1867," Number 2095, Record Group 94, Entry 350, National Archives, Washington, DC (digital copy online at Maryland State Archives, MSA-SC-4678); Frederick County Land Records, JWLC 2, page 196.

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