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Name John Wilson
Race Mulatto
Occupation Farmer
Birth Year abt 1848
Birth Place Mercer Co., Tennessee
Age 15
Enlistment Date 6 Jan 1863
Enlistment Place Cincinnati
Term of Enlistment 1
Rating Ordinary Seaman
Muster Date 31 Jul 1863
Vessel Benton
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Ancestry.com. Web: US, African American Civil War Sailor Index, 1861-1865 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2014.

Original data: Soldiers and Sailors Database. Sailors. National Park Service. http://www.nps.gov/civilwar/search-sailors.htm: accessed 13 July 2014.

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