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Jacob H. Armstrong
Name: Jacob H. Armstrong
Affiliation: Union
Unit: 7th MD Inf.
Race: White
Place of Birth/Residence: Washington County, MD
Enlistment Date: n/a
Company: A
Rank at End of Service: Private
Notes:
Deserted 2/25/1863 and returned to Unit on 11/5/1863; Later transferred to 1st MD Inf., Co. C
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), 278; Roger Keller, Roster of Civil War Soldiers from Washington County, Maryland (Clearfield Co.: Genealogical Pub. Co., 1998); Maryland Adjutant General, "Civil War Muster Rolls, 1864-1867," MSA-S-936-17, Maryland State Archives, Annapolis, MD; (John Thomas Scharf, History of Western Maryland, Volume I (Philadelphia: L.H. Everts, 1882), 226.
