Archives of Maryland
(Biographical Series)

Hamilton Frisby (b. circa 1839 - d. 1916)
MSA SC 3520-5775
USCT Soldier, Kent County, Maryland

Sources:

Archival Sources - 

COMPTROLLER OF THE TREASURY (Bounty Rolls) 1864-1880. Volunteers. Hamilton Frisby. Reel: SR 4438. [MSA SM183-1] Page 170.

DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH BUREAU OF VITAL STATISTICS (Death Record, Counties) Kent County. Dates: 1910-1951. [S1179]. Hamilton Frisby. May 23, 1916. Certificate Number 6694.

KENT COUNTY REGISTER OF WILLS (Wills) 1914-1919. Hamilton Frisby. Book JRC 1. Folio 189. Film Reel: CR 53-2. MSA CM671-23.

SPECIAL COLLECTIONS (U.S. Colored Troops Pension File Collection) [MSA SC 4126] Hamilton Frisby. Box 27. Folder 539.

Newspapers and Journals - 

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

“The 9th U.S. Colored Troops left here today,” Cincinnati Daily Gazette, Cincinnati, Ohio, 18 October 1886, p. 3, transcription accessed 21 April 2013 through American Historical   Newspapers database, online.

“A Costly Dog.” The Kent News. Reel 1625, microfilm collection, Washington College Collection, Washington College, Maryland.

“A Shooting Case.” The Kent News. Reel 1625, microfilm collection, Washington College Collection, Washington College, Maryland.

Cincinnati Daily Gazette. Cincinnati, Ohio, 18 October 1886. American Historical Newspapers database, online.

The Sun. Baltimore, Maryland, 15 November 1888. American Historical Newspapers database, online.

“Telegraphic”, Daily Constitutional, Augusta, Georgia, 30 September 1864, American Historical Newspapers database, accessed online.

“Telegraphic”, The Sun, 15 November 1888, American Historical Newspapers database, accessed online.

Books - 

Brugger, Robert J. Maryland: A Middle Temperament. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press.

Fields, Barbara Jeanne. Slavery and Freedom on the Middle Ground. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1985.

Fuke, Richard Paul. Imperfect Equality: African American and the confines of white racial attitudes in post-emancipation Maryland. New York: Fordham University Press.

Gannon, Barbara A. “African Americans in the Grand Army of the Republic: Chestertown to Oklahoma City”, lecture at Washington College, March 1, 2002, C.V. Starr Center.

Gannon, Barbara. Roster of G.A.R, Department of Maryland 1882 – 1921, Library of Congress, Compile 2000, Kent County Arts Council.

Kautz, August V. Customs of Service For Non- Commissioned Officers and Soldiers. Pennsylvania, 1864, 46.

McPherson, James M. Battle Cry of Freedom: The Civil War Era. New York Oxford University Press 1988, 719.

Regosin, Elizabeth A. and Donald R. Shaffer, ed. “Voices of Emancipation: Understanding Slavery, the Civil War, and Reconstruction through the U.S. Pension Bureau Files”,  handout.

Robertson, William Glenn. “From the Crater to New Market Heights”, in Black Soldiers in Blue: African American Troops in the Civil War Era. Ed. John David Smith. Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press. 1999.

Shaffer, Donald R.  After the Glory: the Struggles of Black Civil War Veterans. Lawrence: University of Kansas Press, 2004.

Smith, John David Ed., Black Soldiers in Blue: African American Troops in the Civil War Era. Chapel Hill, The University of North Carolina Press, 2002. 

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

Williams, George Washington. A History of the Negro Troops in the War of the Rebellion, 1861 -1865, New York, Harper & Brothers, 1888, 252.

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 -

Abstract of John L. Perley’s papers, William L. Clements Library Finding Aids, accessed May 4, 2013. http://quod.lib.umich.edu/c/clementsmss/umich-wcl-M-2886.4per?view=text

”Hidden Identities: Southern Maryland Slaves & the United States Colored Troops at Camp Stanton, Maryland”, last edited 2013, http://www.csmd.edu/Library/SMSC/NPS_Soldiers/people.php.

“Historic Point of Rocks gets its due”, Village News Online, http://www.villagenewsonline.com/node/11692.

Kent, MD 1860 Federal Census – Slave Schedule. U.S Census.org <http://us-census.org/pub/usgenweb/census/md/kent/1860/sl-0327a.txt>

Lincoln, Abraham. The Emancipation Proclamation, January 1, 1863, A Transcription, Featured Documents, National Archives and Records Administration. Archives.gov <http://www.archives.gov/exhibits/featured_documents/emancipation_proclamation/transcript.htmlMaryland State Archives. 

“Annual Report of the Comptroller, 1885”, Volume 249, pp. 41, October 22, 2009, http://aomol.net/000001/000249/html/am249--41.html

New Book: The Battle of New Market Height: An Interview with Author Jimmy Price”, Civil War Trust: America’s Civil War Battle fields. <http://www.civilwar.org/battlefields/new-market-heights/new-market-heights-/new-book-the-battle-of-new.html>

“Series I Volume XXXV Part I Page 10 of 645 – Olustee”, CivilWar.com, accessed May 8, 2013.http://civilwar.com/?option=com_officialrecord&series=Series%20I&volume=Volume%20XXXV&part=Part%20I&page=10.

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