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African American Civil War Veterans

Pennsylvania Burials by Regiments

Adams, Richard, 1823 - 1882, 3rd USCI, Company A Mustered in 26 June 1863; mustered out with company 31 October 1865 (Bates).
Burial location: Union American M.E. Church Cemetery, East Fallowfield Township, Chester County

Allen, Leroy, 16 March 1837 - 30 October 1931, 3rd USCI, Company D Rank in: Private; Rank out: Corporal (Found in NPS Records as "Allen, Le Roy," M589 Roll 2, Film A-8)
Mustered in 4 July 1863, trained at Camp William Penn, discharge date unknown (Bates).
Burial location: Bensalem AME Church Cemetery, Bensalem, Bucks County
Notes: Link to his Find-a-Grave webpage: https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/43409596/le_roy-allen

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)

Hilton, Thomas J., Private, 3rd USCT, Company B.
Burial location: Darby Friends Cemetery, Darby, Delaware County Pennsylvania.
Notes: Born circa 1836 in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. Mustered in June 30, 1863, mustered out with his company on October 31, 1865.(NPS Records).
Died in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in 1886.
Link to his Find-a-Grave webpage: https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/31619897/thomas-j-hilton

Hunter, George W., Corporal, 3rd USCT, Company H.
Burial location: East Middletown Cemetery, Middletown, Dauphin County Pennsylvania.
Notes:Born 20 July 1832 in Lancaster County, PA to Jacob and Charlotte Hunter. Enlisted 18 July 1863 in Philadelphia, PA and mustered into 3rd USCT, Company H; Promoted to corporal 1864; Mustered out with company on 31 October 1865 at Jacksonville, Florida. (Bates).
Family members: Wife Ellen; Sons George W., Charles, and daughter Ellen A. Died 20 May 1908 in Middletown, Dauphin County Pennsylvania.
Link to his Find-a-Grave webpage: https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/10945810/george-w-hunter

Jackson, Francis, 3rd USCI, Company K Mustered in 18 July 1863; discharged on surgeon's certificate 6 June 1865 (Bates).
Burial location: Lincoln Cemetery, Gettysburg, Adams County

Parker, Charles H., 3rd USCI, Company F. Born 1847, died 1876.
Burial location: Originally buried at Yellow Hill, Parker was reinterred at Gettysburg National Cemetery in 1936 (McCauslin)
Stanton, Samuel Sr., 3rd USCI, Company C, 1832 - 1912.
Burial location: Lincoln Cemetery, Gettysburg, Adams County
Not found by this name in NPS records under 3rd regiment. According to Betty Dorsey Myers, researcher for the Lincoln Cemetery Project Association, Stanton enlisted in Company K under the alias of Samuel Johnson (According to Bates, Corp. Samuel S. Johnson mustered in17 July 1863 and was discharged on a surgeon's certificate on 9 November 1863), and was later transferred to Company C (Bates shows Private Johnson as a substitute, with a muster in date of 30 September 1864 and a muster out date, with the company, of 31 October 1865). NPS records also show a Samuel Johnson as a private in Company C. Another listing shows a Samuel S. Johnson (S for Stanton?) as a corporal in Company K. (Myers, p. 72)

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/archive_list/articles/history/gb/war/blacks_bigerville.htm, accessed January 19, 2006.
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