Fw: Find your ancestors here from southern Maryland. They want to honor the descendants.
Saundra Brown
Members of the USCT from St. Mary's County, Maryland
Wednesday, June 3, 2009
A local group, the .Unified Committee for Afro-American Contributions, is t=
rying to find descendents of members of the USCT from St. Mary's County as =
part of an ongoing effort to establish a memorial in those soldiers' honor.=
Organizers are hoping to include descendents of the soldiers in the memori=
al's dedication. =
The group is trying to find the soldiers' relatives "so that we can bring t=
heir families together and have their families recognized," said Janice Wal=
thour, past president of UCAC and co-chair of the memorial committee, on Th=
ursday. =
The UCAC is particularly interested in finding descendants of the Medal of =
Honor winners, Barnes and Harris. "We want to give [their descendants] info=
rmation about how important one of their ancestors was. It's good to know y=
ou had someone who won that kind of honor," Walthour said. =
The UCAC is actively fundraising for and planning for a memorial to honor t=
he United States Colored Troops from St. Mary's County. The plan is for the=
memorial to be established in the new Carver Heights Community Park, with =
a target dedication date of Sept. 29, 2010. =
People who believe they are descendents of one of these soldiers are asked =
to contact Walthour at 301-862-2296, Nathaniel Scroggins at 301-862-9635 or=
Idolia Shubrooks, the other co-chair of the memorial committee, at 301-863=
-2150. =
For more information on the project, visit www.ucaconline.org. =
The following is a list that was compiled by Edwin Beitzell and published i=
n the June 7 and 21, 1978, editions of The Enterprise =
Pvt. Alexander Armstrong =
Pvt. John Armstrong =
Pvt. Geo. H. Bankins =
Pvt. Efsee Barber =
Pvt. Joseph Barbour =
Pvt. John F. Barnes =
Pvt. William H. Barnes =
Pvt. David Bennett =
Pvt. Moses Bennett =
Pvt. Frederick Biscoe =
Pvt. James Biscoe =
Pvt. John Biscoe =
Pvt. Richard Biscoe =
Pvt. Richard Biscoe =
Pvt. Robert (Blakistone) Blackson =
Pvt. John Bond =
Pvt. John Bowman =
Pvt. John A. Brent =
Pvt. Abram Briscoe =
Pvt. Thomas Briscoe =
Pvt. Daniel Brooks =
Pvt. Alfred Brown =
Cpl. Augusta Brown =
Pvt. Franklin Brown =
Pvt. James Brown =
Pvt. James F. Buchanan =
Pvt. George Burroughs =
Pvt. Anthony Butler =
Pvt. Charles Butler =
Pvt. Charles Butler =
Pvt. Frank Butler =
Pvt. George Washington Butler =
Pvt. Ignatius Butler =
Pvt. James Butler =
Cpl. John F. Butler =
Sgt. Peter H. Butler =
Pvt. Thomas Butler =
Pvt. Wm. H. Butler =
Pvt. Alonzo Campbell =
Pvt. Lewis Campbell =
Pvt. Peter Campbell =
Cpl. Vistar Campbell =
Pvt. Wm. A. Campbell =
Pvt. Henry Carberry =
Pvt. George Carter =
Pvt. James Carter =
Pvt. Abram R. Caywood =
Pvt. Charles A. Cecil =
Cpl. Jerry Cecil =
Pvt. Charles H. Chapman =
Pvt. John F. Coates =
Pvt. Wm. H. Coates =
Pvt. Frederick Cole =
Pvt. George R. Cole =
Pvt. John M. Cole =
Pvt. Cyrus Collins =
Pvt. Filbert Collins =
Pvt. John S. Collins =
Pvt. John Cooper =
Pvt. Wm. Henry Cooper =
Pvt. Joseph Crayton =
Pvt. George Curtis =
Pvt. James H. Curtis =
Pvt. Jacob Cutchumber =
Pvt. John L. Dade =
Pvt. Robert A. Dailey =
Pvt. Alowise Dickerson =
Pvt. Dominick Dickerson =
Pvt. Ferdinand Dickerson =
Pvt. John Dickerson =
Pvt. Philip Dock =
Pvt. Alexander Dorsey =
Pvt. Marion Dorsey =
Pvt. William Dorsey =
Pvt. Clement Dyson =
Pvt. James C. Dyson =
Pvt. Wm. K. Dyson =
Pvt. Ignatius Easton =
Pvt. Thomas R. Edgerton =
Pvt. Frederick Eglin =
Pvt. George Henry Eglin =
Sgt. Joseph Eglin =
Pvt. Andrew Fenwick =
Pvt. Frederick Fenwick =
Pvt. Guy Fenwick =
Pvt. Alexander Forrest =
Pvt. Frederick Forrest =
Cpl. William Forrest =
Pvt. Charles H. Fowler =
Pvt. Clement Fowler =
Pvt. Thomas Fowler =
Pvt. Allen Frederick =
Pvt. George W. Frederick =
Pvt. Cornelius Garner =
Pvt. George Robert Garner =
Pvt. John Garner =
Pvt. Joseph A. Garner =
Pvt. John Gordon =
Pvt. Alexander Gough =
Pvt. James Gough =
Pvt. John Henry Gough =
Pvt. Thomas Gough =
Pvt. Wm. H. Gough =
Pvt. Jeremiah Green =
Pvt. Levi Green =
Pvt. John Grinnell =
Pvt. Benjamin Gross =
Pvt. John Gross =
Pvt. John Gross =
Pvt. Robert Gross =
Pvt. William Gross =
Pvt. Albert or Alfred Hall =
Pvt. Charles Hanson =
Pvt. Benjamin Handy =
Pvt. Alfred Harris =
Pvt. Alfred Harris =
Cpt. James H. Harris =
Pvt. Wm. S. Harris =
Pvt. Henry Hawkins =
Pvt. Hillery Hawkins =
Pvt. Joseph Hawkins =
Pvt. Clement Hayden =
Pvt. Nobel Henry Henson =
Cpt. Townley Hill =
Pvt. John Hinson =
Pvt. Edward Jackson =
Pvt. James Jackson =
Pvt. Robert Jenifer =
Pvt. Resin (Geo.) Jennifer =
Pvt. Cesar Johnson =
Pvt. James Johnson =
Pvt. Charles Caleb Jones =
Pvt. Michael Jones =
Pvt. Ambrose Jordan =
Pvt. Hillery Jordan =
Pvt. Joshua Jordan =
Pvt. Wm. A. Jordan =
Pvt. John H. Jupiter =
Pvt. Hillen Key =
Pvt. Sandy Lamsell =
Pvt. Daniel Lee =
Pvt. Edward Lee =
Pvt. Isaac Lee =
Pvt. John Lewis =
Pvt. Royal Livers =
Pvt. Clement Lloyd =
Pvt. Robert Lloyd =
Sgt. Alfred B. Lyles =
Pvt. Henry Mack =
Pvt. Thomas Mack =
Pvt. Cornelius Mason =
Pvt. George Mason =
Pvt. Joseph Mason =
Pvt. Richard Mason =
Pvt. Semon Mason =
Pvt. Thomas Mason =
Pvt. James Matley (Mattingly) =
Pvt. Cornelius Meredy =
Pvt. Neamiah Merritt (Merrick) =
Pvt. Alexander Milburn =
Pvt. Frederick Milburn =
Pvt. John Milburn =
Pvt. John S. Milburn =
Pvt. John Miles =
Pvt. Walter A. Miles =
Pvt. John Millard =
Pvt. Benjamin Mills =
Pvt. George Mills =
Pvt. Richard Mills =
Pvt. Norman Moore =
Pvt. Daniel Morgan =
Pvt. Matthew Morgan =
Pvt. Franklin Neale =
Pvt. George Neale =
Pvt. James Henry Neale =
Pvt. James T. Neale =
Pvt. John R. Neale =
Pvt. John L. Nebbitt =
Pvt. Joseph Pifer =
Pvt. Philip Plater =
Pvt. George W. Reeder =
Cpl. John W. Reeder =
Pvt. Joseph Reeder =
Pvt. George Robinson =
Pvt. John M. Rustin =
Pvt. Mark Sanford =
Pvt. James H. Sewell =
Pvt. Robert Sewell =
Pvt. Washington Slater =
Pvt. Stephen Smallwood =
Pvt. Abraham Smith =
Pvt. John W. Smith =
Pvt. Samuel Smith =
Pvt. John Statesman =
Pvt. Geo. A. Stevens (Stephens) =
Pvt. Felix Steward =
Pvt. Thomas Steward =
Pvt. Wm. A. Steward =
Pvt. John Thomas Stewart =
Pvt. Wm. F. Stewart =
Pvt. Charles Taylor =
Pvt. William Tebbs =
Pvt. Dennis Thomas =
Pvt. Henry Thomas =
Pvt. John H. Thomas =
Pvt. Robert Thomas =
Pvt. Samuel Thomas =
Pvt. Sidney Thomas =
Pvt. William Thomas =
Pvt. George Tilghman =
Pvt. Daniel S. Tolson =
Pvt. James A. Tolson =
Pvt. William Travis =
Pvt. John H. Turner =
Pvt. Major Turner =
Pvt. Geo. W. Washington =
Pvt. Sandy Washington =
Pvt. Robert Waters =
Pvt. John P. Watts =
Pvt. William Watts =
Pvt. John R. Whaling =
Pvt. Romulus K. Whaling =
Pvt. Joseph Alex. Wheeler =
Pvt. James Whitehurst =
Pvt. Geo. W. Williams =
Pvt. George Wilson =
Pvt. John Wilson =
Pvt. Henry Wood =
Pvt. John Woodland =
Pvt. John C. Woodland =
Pvt. Philip Woodland =
Pvt. Wm. H. Woodland =
Sgt. James Walter Yates =
Pvt. Edward Young =
Pvt. Hillery Young =
Pvt. Jack Young =