Record Group 94: Records of the Adjutant General's Office, 1762 - 1984 Series: Letters Received, 1862 - 1889 File Unit: Congressional Medal of Honor File of Sergeant Major Christian A. Fleetwood, 4th U.S. Colored Troops Infantry Regiment

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Record Group 94: Records of the Adjutant General's Office, 1762 - 1984 Series: Letters Received, 1862 - 1889 File Unit: Congressional Medal of Honor File of Sergeant Major Christian A. Fleetwood, 4th U.S. Colored Troops Infantry Regiment

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Fleetwood, Christian Abraham, 1840-1914

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Fleetwood was born in Baltimore on July 21, 1840, the son of Charles and Anna Maria Fleetwood, both were free persons of color. He received his early education in the home of a wealthy sugar merchant and chairman of Baltimore's chamber of commerce, John C. Brunes, and his wife. The latter treated Fleetwood like her son and taught him to read and write. He continued his education at the Maryland State Colonization Society, went briefly to Liberia and Sierra Leone, and graduated in 1860 from Ashmu...