Julia Walker Ruhl, Suffragist
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Julia Walker Ruhl, Suffragist
Garrett County, Maryland -- History
Eli Truly, USCT
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Eli Truly, 1814-1877
Eli Truly served as a Private in Company C the 31st. Regiment Infantry of the United States Colored Troops (USCT). Truly, along with Edward Young, are the two black Union soldiers buried in Garrett County’s Oakland Cemetery. They are among the eighty-three veterans of the Civil War interred in the cemetery, thirteen of which are Confederate. According to his military records, Truly was born in Virginia and prior to his enlistment in Washington, D.C. was employed as a laborer.