African American Civil War Veterans

Mountain Green Cemetery, near Shippensburg

• 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)

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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