James M. Biser
Name: James M. Biser
Affiliation: Union
Unit: 1st MD Inf.
Race: White
Place of Birth/Residence: Middletown, Frederick County, MD
Enlistment Date: 05/27/1861
Company: H
Rank at End of Service: Private
Notes:
Also listed as "James N. Byner." Veteran. Enlisted at Relay House, MD. Wounded in battle.Taken prisoner. Discharged for wounds.
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; L. Allison Wilmer, J. H. Jarrett and Geo. W. F. Vernon, History and Roster of Maryland Volunteers, War of 1861-5 (Baltimore: Guggenheimer, Weil, & Co., 1899); National Park Service, Civil War Soldiers and Sailors System, online at http://www.itd.nps.gov/cwss/index.html; Historical Data Systems, comp., U.S. Civil War Soldier Records and Profiles [database on-line], Ancestry.com; United States Census Bureau, “1860 Federal Census of Frederick Co., MD,” [database on-line], Ancestry.com.
