Jefferson Weeden
Name: Jefferson Weeden
Affiliation: Union
Unit: 39th USCT Inf.
Race: African American
Owner's Name: Charles E. Thomas
Place of Birth/Residence: Frederick County, MD
Enlistment Date: 03/31/1864
Company: F
Slave at Enlistment?: Yes
Notes:
Transferred to U.S. Navy 4/17/1864
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, 229, right; Adjutant General, "Civil War Muster Rolls, 1864-1867," MSA-S-936-51, Folder No. 55, Maryland State Archives, Annapolis, MD; National Park Service, Civil War Soldiers and Sailors System, online at http://www.itd.nps.gov/cwss/index.html; 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]; U.S. Adjutant General, Maryland Slave Claims Commission, "Register of Claims, 1864-1867," Number 3002, Record Group 94, Entry 350, National Archives, Washington, DC (digital copy online at Maryland State Archives, MSA-SC-4678).
