William Blake
Name: William Blake
Affiliation: Union
Unit: 4th USCT Inf.
Race: African American
Owner's Name: n/a
Place of Birth/Residence: Williamsport, 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; Killed in Action (by a gunshot wound) near Petersburg, VA on 6/15/1864
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].
