John Jackson
Name: John Jackson
Affiliation: Union
Unit: 30th USCT Inf.
Race: African American
Owner's Name: Daniel Scholl
Place of Birth/Residence: Frederick City, Frederick County, MD
Enlistment Date: 03/31/1864
Company: H
Slave at Enlistment?: Yes
Rank at End of Service: Private
Notes:
Manumission recorded 05/17/1864; Manumission record states date of enlistment as 04/14/1864; Enlisted in Baltimore, MD
Source(s):
Paul and Rita Gordon, Frederick County, Maryland: A Playground of the Civil War (The Heritage Partnership, Frederick, MD: M&B Printing Inc., 1994), 285; U.S. Adjutant General, Maryland Slave Claims Commission, "Register of Claims, 1864-1867," Number 1683, Record Group 94, Entry 350, National Archives, Washington, DC (digital copy online at Maryland State Archives, MSA-SC-4678); Compiled Military Service Records of Volunteer Union Soldiers, National Archives, Washington, DC, as scanned on Ancestry.com, U.S., Colored Troops Military Service Records, 1861-1865 [database on-line]; Frederick County Circuit Court, Land Records, Liber JWLC 1, page 553. Folio online at MDLandRec.Net; 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, 208, right.
