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Nelson Brown

Name: Nelson Brown

Affiliation: Union

Unit: 7th USCT Inf.

Race: African American

Owner's Name: William Raymond Sanderson

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

Enlistment Date: n/a

Slave at Enlistment?: Yes

Rank at End of Service: Private

Notes:

Manumission recorded and granted 3/16/1864; Disabled in the service


Source(s):

Paul and Rita Gordon, Frederick County, Maryland: A Playground of the Civil War (The Heritage Partnership, Frederick, MD: M&B Printing Inc., 1994), 283; Frederick County Land Records [on-line at MDLandRec.net], JWLC 1, page 246.

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