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Silas Buck

Name: Silas Buck

Affiliation: Union

Unit: 1st Potomac Home Brigade Inf.

Race: White

Place of Birth/Residence: Keedysville, Washington County, MD

Enlistment Date: n/a

Company: I

Rank at End of Service: Private

Notes:

Was present when Harpers Ferry surrendered in 1862; Fought at Battle of Gettysburg, PA; Immediately joined 13th MD Reg. Inf., Co. I and served until the war's end


Source(s):

L. Allison Wilmer, J. H. Jarrett and Geo. W. F. Vernon, History and Roster of Maryland Volunteers, War of 1861-5, Volume 1 (Baltimore: Guggenheimer, Weil, & Co., 1899), 454; Roger Keller, Roster of Civil War Soldiers from Washington County, Maryland (Clearfield Co.: Genealogical Pub. Co., 1998).

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