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Alonzo F. Brightwell

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Name: Alonzo F. Brightwell

Affiliation: Union

Unit: 1st Potomac Home Brigade Inf.; 13th MD Inf.

Race: White

Place of Birth/Residence: Liberty, Frederick County, MD

Enlistment Date: 09/06/1861

Company: B (1st & 13th)

Rank at End of Service: Corporal

Notes:

Enlisted as a Private. Transferred to 13th MD Inf., Co. B.


Source(s):

Image from U.S. Army Military History Institute; 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, roll 37, page 28); 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); United States Census Bureau, “1880 Federal Census of Frederick Co., MD,” [database on-line], Ancestry.com.

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