John Henry Barton was born in 1846 in Maryland to John and Ann Barton.[1] By the age of 12, he worked as a laborer for the Todd Family in Creagerstown, Frederick, Maryland.[2] Then under the Enrollment Act of 1863, he enlisted on November 1, 1864, as a substitute for Andrew Bostater.[3] [4] Barton served a one-year term being discharged as a private on November 15, 1865, at Indianola, TX.
Jonas William Kee was born in Maryland, July 14th, 1839, to Phillip Kee and Nancy Stout.[1][2] He was not recorded in a federal census until 1850. At the time, he was 12 years old and worked as a laborer in William N. Thanine’s home, located in the 8th District of Frederick, Maryland. The census labeled his race as mulatto, but later censuses and military records record him as black.
John Luckett served in Company I of the 45th U.S.C.T. He was born in Washington, Maryland around or before 1830, and married his wife, Mary Pattinson, on August 7, 1850, in Frederick County, Maryland.1 In 1860, the two of them moved to Southampton, Pennsylvania, where he worked as a day laborer. At this point they also had two children, who are listed on the Federal Census as “M.A.” and “E.L.”.2 Luckett was drafted on July 19th, 1864, in Southampton Township, but then enlisted separately on August 15, 1864, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.