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John Carter

Name: John Carter

Affiliation: Union

Unit: 3rd Potomac Home Brigade Inf.

Race: White

Place of Birth/Residence: Carroll County, MD

Enlistment Date: 03/28/1864

Company: G

Rank at End of Service: Private

Notes:

Captured at Leesburg, VA on 7/20/1864. Died of diarrhea in the prison at Andersonville, GA on 8/3/1864. Note on bounty record: $250 owed by Carroll County.


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 362, 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).

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