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          William Henry Barnes.

        1. William Henry Barnes.
        2. William Barnes was a year-old farmer when he enlisted in the US Army.
        3. William Henry Barnes (May 14, – November 10, ) was an American jurist who served as Assistant Justice on the Arizona Territorial Supreme Court from.
        4. Born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, on April 4, , Barnes spent almost his entire life in the city.
        5. Barnes was born on 25 August , in Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts, United States, his father, Horace Barnes, was 36 and his mother, Almira Carrington, was

          6. William Henry Barnes (May 14, – November 10, ) was an American jurist who served as Assistant Justice on the Arizona Territorial Supreme Court from..

          William H. Barnes (Medal of Honor)

          This article is about the Medal of Honor recipient.

          For other people with the same name, see William Barnes (disambiguation).

          United States Army Medal of Honor recipient

          William Henry Barnes (c. 1840 or 1845-December 24, 1866) was a Union Army soldier during the American Civil War and a recipient of the Medal of Honor, America's highest military decoration.

          He was African American.

          William Barnes was working as a carpenter in Salt Lake City.

          Biography

          Barnes was born and raised in St. Mary's County Maryland and worked as a free tenant farmer there before enlisting in the Army from Norfolk, Virginia, on February 11, 1864. He joined as a private into Company C of the 38th United States Colored Infantry Regiment.

          His enlistment papers record his age as 23, implying a birth year of 1840 or 1841, but other sources give his birth as 1845.[1]

          At the Battle of Chaffin's Farm, on September 29, 1864, Barnes' regiment was among a division of black troops assigned to attack the center of the Confe