Archives of Maryland
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Alexander Chaney (b. circa 1839 - d. 1917)
MSA SC 5496-51754
USCT Soldier, Kent County, Maryland

Sources:

Archival Sources -

ADJUTANT GENERAL (Muster Rolls) 1863-1866, U.S. Colored Troops. [MSA S936-46]. Alexander Chaney. Company D. 9th Regiment. Page 70. Line 1.

DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH BUREAU OF VITAL STATISTICS (Death Record, Counties) Kent County. Dates: 1910-1951, [S1179]. Alexander Chaney. June 08, 1917. Certificate Number 10104.

KENT COUNTY CIRCUIT COURT (Charter Record) 1869-1984. Articles of Incorporation of Charles Sumner Post No. 25 Grand Army of the Republic. MSA CM648.

KENT COUNTY COURT (Land Records) 1839-1840. Liber JNG 6. Folio 521. Alexander Chaney Sr. to Samuel H. Freeman. MSA CE118-47.

KENT COUNTY CIRCUIT COURT (Marriage Record) 1865-1886. Liber: alph. Folio 46-47. Alexander Chaney to Elizabeth Carroll. SCM 218-1. Film Image 25. MSA CM664-1.

Maryland Colonization Papers (Census of Free Negroes), 1817 – 1880,  MSA SC5977, Reel 21, pg. 257.

SPECIAL COLLECTIONS (U.S. Colored Troops Pension File Collection) [MSA SC 4126] Alexander Chaney. Box 29. Folder 564.

U.S. CENSUS BUREAU (Census Record, MD) 1850. "Alexander Chaney." Kent County, Maryland. The Second Election District. Line 38. Image 84. SCM 1498-2. MSA SM61-141.

U.S. CENSUS BUREAU (Census Record, MD) 1860. "Alexander Chaney." Kent County, Maryland. Second Election District. Page 269. Line 23. SCM 7222-2. MSA SM61-212.

U.S. CENSUS BUREAU (Census Record, MD) 1870. "Alexander Chaney." Kent County, Maryland. Chestertown, 4th Election District. Page 1. Line 22. SCM 7255. MSA SM61-274.
Newspapers and Journals -

Blassingame, John W. “The Recruitment of Negro Troops in Maryland.” Maryland Historical Magazine,  Vol. 58, No. 1 (March 1963).

“Peace of Decoration Day, The Kent News, Saturday, 1880 June 5.

Books -

Higginson, Thomas Wentworth, Army Life in a Black Regiment, (New York: Penguin Books, 2009), http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:2001.05.0021:chapter=12 (accessed May 8, 2013), 257.

Kirby, Walter J., Roll Call, The Civil War in Kent County, Maryland.

Symonds, Craig L. Joseph E. Johnston: A Civil War Biography. New York: W. W. Norton, 1992.

Williams, George Washington, A History of the Negro Troops in the War of the Rebellion, 1861-1865, (New York: Harper Brothers, 1888), http://books.google.com/books?id=eTAOAAAAIAAJ&printsec=frontcover&source=gbs_ge_summary_r&cad=0

Internet Sources -

"6th Regiment, United States Colored Infantry". Civil War Soldiers and Sailors System. National Park Service. Retrieved May 8, 2013

Ancestry.com. 1900. United States Federal Census. "Alex Chaney." Kent County, Maryland. Fourth Election District. Line 42. Image 13.

Ancestry.com. U.S. Colored Troops Military Service Records, 1861 – 1865. Kent County, Maryland. Record for Alexander Chaney. Company A. 6th U.S. Colored Troops Regiment. Image 258.

Slavery and the Civil War, http://www.kentcountyhistory.org/key/civilwar.php.

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