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James W. Adams

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Name: James W. Adams

Affiliation: Union

Unit: 1st Potomac Home Brigade Cav.

Race: White

Place of Birth/Residence: Washington County, MD

Enlistment Date: 02/25/1864

Company: G

Rank at End of Service: Private


Source(s):

Image from U.S. Army Military History Institute; 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 240, page 19; National Park Service, Civil War Soldiers and Sailors System, online at http://www.itd.nps.gov/cwss/index.html; 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).