Patrick Hoons (b. circa 1843 - d. circa ?)
MSA SC 5496-050576
Enlisted with Company C, 39th Regiment,
USCT, in Montgomery County, 1864
Biography:
Patrick Hoons enlisted as a private with the the newly-formed 39th
Regiment of the Maryland Volunteer Infantry. He served in Company C under
Colonel Samuel M. Bowman, who had enlisted him.1 Hoons was a
slave at the time of his enlistment, although the name of his former slaveholder
is unknown. Along with Daniel
Proctor, Hoons was one of two soldiers from Montgomery County in Company
C. The 39th participated in battles that included Petersburg,
Spotsylvania Court House, and the Crater.2 He survived the war,
and was mustered out in 1865. He did not appear in later census records.
The African American Civil War Memorial in Washington, D.C. lists Hoons'
name among its 209,145 names. His name appears on plaque C-54 on the Wall
of Honor.3
1. ADJUTANT GENERAL, (Muster Rolls), 1863-1866, U.S. Colored Troops, [MSA S936-50]. Patrick Hoons, Company C, 39th Regiment, Line 31.
2. L. Allison Wilmer, J. H. Jarrett, and Geo. W. F. Vernon. History and Roster of Maryland Volunteers, War of 1861-65. Vol. 2 (Baltimore, MD: Guggenheimer, Weil & Co., 1899) 261.
3. "Patrick Hoons." Civil
War Soldiers and Sailors System. National Park Service. http://www.itd.nps.gov/cwss/soldiers.cfm.
"The African
American Civil War Memorial." African American Civil War Memorial Freedom
Foundation and Museum. http://www.afroamcivilwar.org/.
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