African American Civil War Veterans

127th United States Colored Infantry

• Burrs, David, 127th USCI, Company A
  Burial location:  Mountain Green Cemetery, Shippensburg
  Notes:  NPS records show rank in, private; rank out, private. Film no. M589, roll 5.   On unit rolls as David Burr; mustered in 17 August 1864, substitute, not on muster-out rolls. (Bates)
   
• Carter, Isaac, 127th USCT, Company I
  Burial location: Lincoln Cemetery, Gettysburg, Adams County
• Coles, Samuel E. /"1843 - 1920 / Pvt. Co. G. 127th Regt. USCT"
  Burial location: Midland Cemetery, Swatara Township, Dauphin County
  notes: NPS list as "Cole, Samuel," Film no. M589, roll 18.
• Demas, Jacob, 127th USCI, Company I,A  (Christopher Frisby research)
  Burial location:  Zion Union Cemetery, Mercersburg, Franklin County
  Notes:
   
• Dent, James E. / "Co C 127 Regt. Vol Inf. / Died Apr. 19, 1913"
  Burial location: Lincoln Cemetery, Penbrook, Dauphin County
• 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)
   
• Henderson, Charles / "127th USCT"
  Burial location: Midland Cemetery, Swatara Township, Dauphin County
  Notes: NPS records show two listings for Charles Henderson in this regiment. He appears as a private in companies K and B, and then as sergeant/first sergeant in company G. (Film no. M589, roll 39).
• Hill, Charles, 127th USCT, Company H
  Burial location: Lincoln Cemetery, Gettysburg, Adams County
• 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:
   
• Hopkins, Nathan / "P. Co. A, 127, Reg. PA Inf. / Died 1929"
  Burial location: Lincoln Cemetery, Penbrook, Dauphin County
  Notes: NPS records show company AB; rank in, private; rank out, private; alternate name, Nathaniel Hopkins. Film no. M589, roll 42.
• James, Charles R. /"P Co. C. 127 Reg USCT Inf / May 17, 1846 - May 15, 1924"
  Burial location: Midland Cemetery, Swatara Township, Dauphin County
  Notes: NPS records show company CA. Film no. M589, roll 45.
• Johnson, Richard /"Co. G 127 Reg USCT / Died July 4, 1909"
  Burial location: Midland Cemetery, Swatara Township, Dauphin County (view Burial Application)
  Notes: NPS records show company GC; rank in, private; rank out, private. Film no. M589, roll 48.
• Massey, Ebenezer, 127th USCT, Company G
  Burial location: Lebanon Cemetery, Chambersburg, Franklin County
  Notes: NPS records show company GC; rank in, musician; rank out, private. Film no. M589, roll 57.
• Mathews, Nelson F., 127th USCT, Company I, Corporal.
  Burial location: Lincoln Cemetery, Gettysburg, Adams County
• Mathews, William H., 127th USCT, Company I
  Burial location: Originally buried at Yellow Hill.  Reinterred at Lincoln Cemetery, Gettysburg, Adams County (no surviving stone) (McCauslin)

• Preston, Charles /"Priv. Co. C. Regt. 127th / USCT / 1837 - 1887"
  Burial location: Midland Cemetery, Swatara Township, Dauphin County
  Notes: NPS records show company G. Film no. M589, roll 69.
• 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)
   
• Shorter, Rev. George, Private, 127th USCT, Company F/B. 
  Burial location: East Middletown Cemetery, Middletown, Dauphin County, PA
  Notes: Born 06 February 1843 in York County, PA to James and Catheine Shorter.   Enlisted 30 August 1864 in Carlisle, PA and mustered into 127th USCT, Company F; Promoted to corporal on 10 September 1864; Mustered out with company B 08 September 1865 at Brazos, Texas. (Bates). Died 02 October 1916 in Middletown, Dauphin County Pennsylvania. 
  Link to his Find-a-Grave webpage: https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/10946046/george-shorter

• Spencer, Edward, 1831 - ?, 127th USCT, Company F
  Burial location: Union American M.E. Church Cemetery, East Fallowfield Township, Chester
• Wagner, George W., 127th USCT, Company I
  Burial location: Lincoln Cemetery, Gettysburg, Adams County
  Notes: NPS records show rank in and rank out as corporal. Film no. M589, roll 90.
• Webster, Nicholas /"1841 - 1922 / Priv Co. H Regt. 127/ Colored Inf. U.S. Army"
  Burial location: Midland Cemetery, Swatara Township, Dauphin County
  Notes: NPS records show "Nick Webster," private in companies H and A, 127th USCT. Film no. M589, roll 92.
• 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)

Sources

• Samuel P. Bates, History of the Pennsylvania Volunteers, 1861-1865, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, 1868.
• Debra McCauslin, "Black Civil War Veterans from Biglerville?," Adams County Historical Society, http://www.emmitsburg.net/achs/articles/war/blacks_bigerville.htm, accessed January 19, 2006.
• Christopher Frisby, correspondence with Afrolumens Project, 3 February 2007.
• Betty Dorsey Myers, Segregation in Death: Gettysburg's Lincoln Cemetery, Gettysburg, PA, 2001.
• National Park Service, "Civil War Soldiers and Sailors System," https://www.nps.gov/civilwar/soldiers-and-sailors-database.htm

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