African American Civil War Veterans

North Queen Street and Locust Grove Cemeteries, Shippensburg

• Barnet, John A., 3rd USCI, Company B
  Burial Location:  Locust Grove Cemetery, Shippensburg
  Notes:  NPS records show rank in, private; rank out, private. Film no. M589, roll 5.  On unit rolls as John Barnes, mustered in 30 June 1863, absent, sick, at muster out. (Bates)
   
• Boles, John (Sr.), 43rd USCI, Company B
  Burial Location:  North Queen Street Cemetery, Shippensburg
  Notes:  NPS records show alternate name "John Bowles," rank in, private; rank out, private. Film no. M589, roll 8.  On unit rolls as John Bowls, mustered in 11 March, 1864, absent, sick, at muster out. (Bates)
   
• Bushrod, Cyrus, 45th USCI
  Burial Location:  North Queen Street Cemetery, Shippensburg
  Notes:  NPS records show rank in, private; rank out, private. Film no. M589, roll 13.  Unable to locate on unit rolls published by Bates.
   
• Carter, William, 25th USCI, Company B
  Burial Location:  North Queen Street Cemetery, Shippensburg
  Notes:  NPS records show rank in, private; rank out, private. Film no. M589, roll 15.  Mustered in 7 January 1864, mustered out with company 6 December 1865.
   
• Cotton, Samuel, 2nd U.S. Colored Cavalry, Company M
  Burial Location:  North Queen Street Cemetery, Shippensburg
  Notes:  NPS records show rank in, private; rank out, private. Film no. M589, roll 19. 
   
• Dixon, Marshall, 32nd USCI, Company G
  Burial Location:  North Queen Street Cemetery, Shippensburg
  Notes:  NPS records show rank in, corporal; rank out, sergeant. Film no. M589, roll 24.  On unit rolls as Marshall Dickson, mustered in 29 February 1864, promoted from corporal 18 March 1864, mustered out with company 2 August 1865. (Bates)
   
• Galloway, Henry J., 55th Massachusetts, Company H
  Burial Location:  North Queen Street Cemetery, Shippensburg
  Notes:  NPS records show rank in, private; rank out, private. Film no. M589, roll 31.
   
• Green, Robert, 127th USCI, Company E
  Burial Location:  North Queen Street Cemetery, Shippensburg
  Notes:  Died at the State Hospital, Harrisburg, April 1894.  NPS records, Film no. M589, roll 34.  Mustered in 24 August 1864.
   
• Halliday, James E., 127th USCI, Company E
  Burial Location:  North Queen Street Cemetery, Shippensburg
  Notes:   On unit roles as James Holliday, private, mustered in 29 August 1864.  There is also a Sergeant James Holliday as well. (Bates)
   
• Hinton, John W., 127th USCI, Company C
  Burial Location:  Locust Grove Cemetery, Shippensburg
  Notes:   Not on rolls of Company C, in Bates, although there is a James Hinson listed.
   
• Holmes, Lewis, 127th USCI, Company E
  Burial Location:  North Queen Street Cemetery, Shippensburg
  Notes:
   
• Landey, George, 22nd USCI, Company I
  Burial Location:  North Queen Street Cemetery, Shippensburg
  Notes:  NPS records show rank in, private; rank out, corporal. Film no. M589, roll 52. 
   
• Lane, Joseph H., 22nd USCI, Company G
  Burial Location:  North Queen Street Cemetery, Shippensburg
  Notes:  NPS records show rank in, private; rank out, private. Film no. M589, roll 52.
   
• Richardson, Levi, 127th USCI, Company B
  Burial Location:  North Queen Street Cemetery, Shippensburg
  Notes:  NPS records show rank in, private; rank out, private. Film no. M589, roll 72.  Mustered in 24 August 1864.  Not on muster-out rolls.  (Bates)
   
• Rideout, Joseph, 22nd USCI, Company I (NPS records show Company H)
  Burial Location:  North Queen Street Cemetery, Shippensburg
  Notes:  NPS records show rank in, private; rank out, private. Film no. M589, roll 73.
   
• Robinson, Joseph L., 25th USCI, Company B
  Burial Location:  North Queen Street Cemetery, Shippensburg
  Notes:  NPS records show rank in, private; rank out, private. Film no. M589, roll 74.  Mustered in 6 January 1864, mustered out with company 6 December 1865.  (Bates)
   
• Robinson, Washington, 24th USCI, Company H, private.
  Burial location:  North Queen Street Cemetery, Shippensburg
  Notes:   Mustered in 9 March 1865; mustered out with company 1 October 1865. 
   
• Shirk, James H., 55th Massachusetts, Company H
  Burial Location:  North Queen Street Cemetery, Shippensburg
  Notes:  NPS records show rank in, private; rank out, private. Film no. M589, roll 78.
   
• Shirk, John, 54th Massachusetts, Company K
  Burial Location:  North Queen Street Cemetery, Shippensburg
  Notes:  NPS records show rank in, private; rank out, private. Film no. M589, roll 78.
   
• Smith, John Y., 25th USCI, Company C
  Burial Location:  Locust Grove Cemetery, Shippensburg
  Notes:  NPS records show rank in, private; rank out, private. Film no. M589, roll 80.  Mustered in 7 January 1864; mustered out with company 6 December 1865. (Bates)
   
• Stevenson, Joseph, 22nd USCI, Company H
  Burial Location:  North Queen Street Cemetery, Shippensburg
  Notes:  NPS records show rank in, private; rank out, private. Film no. M589, roll 83.
   
• Wilson, Jacob, a.k.a. Paris Jacob Wilson, Unit unconfirmed
  Burial Location:  North Queen Street Cemetery, Shippensburg
  Notes:
   
• Wilson, Michael, Unit unconfirmed, private
  Burial Location:  North Queen Street Cemetery, Shippensburg
   
• Wright, Daniel, 24th USCI, Company A
  Burial Location:  North Queen Street Cemetery, Shippensburg
  Notes:  NPS records show rank in, private; rank out, sergeant. Film no. M589, roll 98.  Mustered in 12 January 1865; promoted to sergeant 23 January 1865; mustered out with company 1 October 1865.  (Bates)
   
• Wright, Samuel, 127th USCI, Company E
  Burial Location:  North Queen Street Cemetery, Shippensburg
  Notes:  NPS records show rank in, sergeant; rank out, sergeant. Film no. M589, roll 98.  Mustered in 29 August 1864. (Bates)
   

Notes

• The Shippensburg University, Department of Military Science, Sophomore Classes (MS II, Spring 2003 & Spring 2004), "African American Veterans of the Civil War, interred in Shippensburg, Pennsylvania," online at http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~maizeblue6/northqueenstcemetery/title.html, accessed 9 February 2007.  See the very well researched and documented website for details and research concerning the soldiers above.
• Samuel P. Bates, History of the Pennsylvania Volunteers, 1861-1865, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, 1868.
• National Park Service, "Civil War Soldiers and Sailors System," https://www.nps.gov/civilwar/soldiers-and-sailors-database.htm

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