Nelson Weedon
Name: Nelson Weedon
Affiliation: Union
Unit: 39th USCT Inf.
Race: African American
Owner's Name: Charles E. Thomas
Place of Birth/Residence: Frederick City, Frederick County, MD
Enlistment Date: 03/29/1864
Company: K
Slave at Enlistment?: Yes
Rank at End of Service: Private
Notes:
Used alias "Wilson"; Disabled in the service in August 1864
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 3001, Record Group 94, Entry 350, National Archives, Washington, DC (digital copy online at Maryland State Archives, MSA-SC-4678).
