Charles Joyce
Name: Charles Joyce
Affiliation: Union
Unit: 4th USCT Inf.
Race: African American
Owner's Name: Absalom P. Kessler
Place of Birth/Residence: Frederick City, Frederick County, MD
Enlistment Date: 07/16/1863
Company: A
Slave at Enlistment?: Yes
Rank at End of Service: Private
Notes:
Manumission recorded on 2/13/1864; Disabled on June of 1865; Term of service: 8 years
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 4, Record Group 94, Entry 350, National Archives, Washington, DC (digital copy online at Maryland State Archives, MSA-SC-4678); Frederick County Land Records [on-line at MDLandREc.net], JWLC 1, page 155.
