Archives of Maryland
(Biographical Series)

Perry H. Landon (b. circa 1842 - d. 1927)
MSA SC 3520-4762
USCT Soldier, Kent County, Maryland

Sources:


Archival Sources -

ADJUTANT GENERAL (Muster Rolls) 1863-1866. U.S. Colored Troops. [MSA S936-47]. Perry H. Landon. Company C. 7th Regiment. Page 134. Number 28.

COMPTROLLER OF THE TREASURY (Bounty Rolls) 1864-1880. Volunteers. Perry H. Landon. Reel: SR 4438. [MSA SM183-1] Page 156.

DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH BUREAU OF VITAL STATISTICS (Death Record, Counties) Kent County. Dates: 1910-1951. [S1179]. Perry H. Landon. May 11, 1927. Certificate Number 05764.

KENT COUNTY COMMISSIONER OF SLAVE STATISTICS (Slave Statistics) Dates: 1867-1868. "P. Henry Lambden." MSA C1096-1. Page 23.

KENT COUNTY REGISTER OF WILLS (Wills) 1931-1939. "Perry H. Landing." Film Reel: CR 54-4. Liber FWS 1. Folio 10. Film Image 786. MSA CM671-26.

SPECIAL COLLECTIONS (Biographical Research files) James Barroll Ricaud [MSA SC 3520-2114, 2/11/11/36].

SPECIAL COLLECTIONS (U.S. Colored Troops Pension File Collection) [MSA SC 4126] Perry H. Landon. Box 29. Folder 566.

Newspapers Accessed at Miller Library, Washington College, Chestertown, Maryland -

Alexandra Gazette, October 24, 1862.

Augusta Chronicle, May 29, 1861.

Kent News, February 14, 1863.

Kent News, December 26, 1863.

Kent News, April 2, 1864.

Kent News, June 10, 1865.

Kent News, June 5, 1880.

Kent News, June 5, 1886.

The Daily Age, November 13, 1863.

The Sun, January 22, 1864.

The Sun, March 10, 1864.

The Sun, September 14, 1963.


Journals -

Michael Owen Bourne., Eugene Hall Johnstone ed, Historic Houses Of Kent County: An Architectural History: 1642-1860 ( The Historic Socioity of Kent County), 113-114.

Robert J. Brugger, Maryland A Middle Temperment: 1634-1980 (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1988), 101-125.


Books -

Califf, Joseph Mark, Record of the Services of the Seventh Regiment, U.S. Colored Troops by an Officer of the Regiment, Freeport, New York: The Black Heritage Library Collection, 1971.

Callum, Agnes Kane. Colored Volunteers of Maryland, Civil War: 7th Regiment United States Colored Troops 1863-1866. Baltimore, MD: Mullac Publishers, 1990.

Fields, Barbara J. Slavery and Freedom on the Middle Ground: Maryland During the 19th Century. Yale Univerity Press, 1985.

Foote, Shelby. “The Universe of Battle” in “ The Civil War: An Illustrated History.” By Geoffrey C. Ward and Ric Burns and Ken Burns. Alfred A. Knope. 1990.

Redkey, Edwin S. A Grand Army of Black Men. Cambridge University Press, 1992.

Trudeau, Noah Andre. Like Men of War: Black Troops in the Civil War, 1862-1865. Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 2002.

Wilmer, L. Allison, 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.


Internet Sources -

Ancestry.com. National Archives and Records Administration. U.S., Colored Troops Military Service Records, 1861-1865. Record for Perry H. Landon. Company Descriptive Book. Company C. 7th United States Colored Troops. Page 1484.

ARCHIVES OF MARYLAND ONLINE. Volume 366. page 166.
http://aomol.net/000001/000366/html/am366--166.html.

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