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William H. Carr

Name: William H. Carr

Affiliation: Union

Unit: 1st Potomac Home Brigade Cav.

Race: White

Place of Birth/Residence: New Windsor, Carroll County, MD

Enlistment Date: 07/23/1863

Company: D

Rank at End of Service: Private

Notes:

Captured at Charlestown, WV on 10/18/1863. Died 8/8/1864 at Andersonville Prison in Andersonville, GA of diarrhea. Credited to 4th Cong. Dist.


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 875, page 2; 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, “1860 Federal Census of Carroll, Co., MD,” [database on-line], Ancestry.com.

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