Henry Buckingham
Name: Henry Buckingham
Affiliation: Union
Unit: 1st Potomac Home Brigade Cav.
Race: White
Place of Birth/Residence: Freedom, Carroll County, MD
Enlistment Date: 08/27/1861
Company: C
Rank at End of Service: Captain
Notes:
Entered the service as Pvt. Promoted Corporal, then Sergeant, then Second Lieutenant on 5/7/1864, then Captain on 11/14/1864. Veteran.
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, roll 30, page 1; 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; United States Census Bureau, “1860 Federal Census of Carroll, Co., MD,” [database on-line], Ancestry.com.
