Henry Adams (abt. 1838)

Born about 1838 in Warrenton, Missouri, United States

Biography

Private Henry Adams served in the United States Civil War.
Enlisted: 5 Jun 1863
Mustered out: 29 Aug 1865
Side: USA
Regiment(s): Company H, 55th Regiment, Massachusetts Infantry (Colored)

Henry Adams is a part of US Black heritage.

Henry was born about 1838 perhaps in Missouri. When he joined the 55th, he was residenced in Warrenton, Missouri and was 25 years of age and a farmer. ^[1] On his enlistment records, he was described as being 5' 7" with a light complexion, brown eyes and black hair. He enlisted at Readville. ^[2]

Sources

1. ↑ Massachusetts Soldiers, Sailors, and Marines in the Civil War
2. ↑ Military Record

• 1870 U.S. census, population schedules. NARA microfilm publication M593, 1,761 rolls. Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.; database and digital images, "1870 United States Federal Census," Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2009 Ancestry Record 7163 #6310342: accessed ; citing Year: 1870; Census Place: Saint Louis, Saint Louis, Missouri; Roll: M593_809; Page: 399B; Family History Library Film: 552308.
• Compiled Military Service Records of Volunteer Union Soldiers. The National Archives at Washington, D.C.; database and digital images, "U.S., Colored Troops Military Service Records, 1863-1865," Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2007 Ancestry Record 1107 #981: accessed 27 February 2019; citing The National Archives at Washington, D.C.; Washington, D.C.; Compiled Military Service Records of Volunteer Union Soldiers Who Served with the United States Colored Troops: 1st through 5th United States Colored Cavalry, 5th Massachusetts Cavalry (Colored), 6th United States Colored Cavalry; Microfilm Serial: M1801; Microfilm Roll: 1.
• Massachusetts Soldiers, Sailors, and Marines in the Civil War (Norwood Press, Norwood, 1931); Volume IV, pg. 748.
• Compiled Military Service Records of Volunteer Union Soldiers Who Served with the United States Colored Troops: 55th Massachusetts Infantry (Colored). M1801, 16 rolls. Records of the Adjutant General’s Office, 1780’s-1917, Record Group Number 94. National Archives, Washington, D.C.
• Fox, Charles Barnard. Record of the Service of the Fifty-Fifth Regiment of Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry, Cambridge, Massachusetts : Press of John Wilson and Son, July, 1868.