27 USCI

Columbiana County – Salem

Lived in Salem during the Civil War
Joseph Peterson, 4 USCI, 1860 Census, Perry Township
Hospital ticket for Joseph Peterson, 4 USCI

1890 Census
Wilson Lacy, 100 USCI
Joseph Peterson, 4 USCI
Clayton Ragan, 22 USCI

Hope Cemetery
Elias Dunmore, 17 USCI, died August 24, 1900
Joseph (Josiah) Dunmore, 17 USCI
Wilson Lacy, 100 USCI, 1905
John Lewis, 5 USCI
Cyrus C. May, 22 USCI, died February 9, 1904
Wesley Williams, 27 USCI, died June 22, 1890

Grandview Cemetery
Joseph Peterson, 4 USCI, died June 23, 1904

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Columbiana County – East Liverpool

1890 Census
Abraham Brown, alias Abraham Cooper, 9 USCHA and 88 USCI
John W. Howard, 27 USCI

1900 Census
William H. Streets, 5 USCI

Riverview Cemetery
Abraham Brown, 9 USCHA and 88 USCI, died June 22, 1899
John W. Howard, 27 USCI, died January 20, 1905
William H. Streets, 5 USCI, died April 24, 104

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Letters from Black Soldiers and Sailors

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Black Civil War Soldiers and Sailors Letters
Click on the names below to read letters written by Black soldiers in the United States Colored Troops and Black sailors in the U.S. Navy during the Civil War

Editorial methods for the transcribed letters

Private William C. Newark, 20 USCI

“Spartan,” a soldier from the 27th USCI

Capt. O.S.B. Wall, 104 USCI

There are also published sources that include the soldiers from
Black Civil War soldiers and veterans.

A Grand Army of Black Men: Letters from African-American Soldiers in the Union Army

Grand Army of Black Men

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Summit County Sources

Akron Negro Directory, A. Kingsberry, 1940
Absalom Brooks, 5 USCI
John W. Brooks, 5 USCI
Frank Hailstock, 32 USCI
Owen Hailstock, 5 USCI
James Morrison, 27 USCI
James Robinson, 5 USCI

Fifty Years and Over of Akron and Summit County, Samuel A. Lane, 1892
Absalom H. Brooks, 5 USCI
John W. Brooks, 5 USCI
Gustavus Edwinton, 5 USCI
Frank Hailstock, 32 USCI
Owen Hailstock, 5 USCI
Moses Jones, 27 USCI
James Morris, 27 USCI

The Military History of Ohio…, “Roll of Honor of Ohio’s Rank and File from Summit County in the War of the Rebellion,” 1886.

“Roll of Honor”
Samuel Bell, 30 USCI
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Summit County – Akron

1890 Census
Frank Hailstock, 32 USCI
Owen Hailstock, 5 USCI
Charles Jenkins, 13 USCHA
Sidney W. Johnson, 11 USCHA
James Morrison, 27 USCI
Peter Perry, 9 USCHA and 88 USCI
Henry Pickett, 27 USCI
William Strange, 17 USCI

Glendale Cemetery
Absolom H. Brooks, 5 USCI, died January 30, 1874
Gustavus Edwinton, 5 USCI, died May 20, 1866
Frank M. Hailstock, 32 USCI, died December 22, 1927
Sidney W. Johnson, 11 USCHA, died February 4, 1894
Moses M.A. Jones, 27 USCI, died April 22, 1880
Richard N. Jones, 27 USCI, died September 24, 1894
Henry Picket, 27 USCI
Robert Smith, 11 USCHA, died 1895

Mount Peace Cemetery
Alvin Smith, 27 USCI, died October 10, 1948

Alvin Smith, 27 USCI, last Civil War veteran in Summit County, Ohio
Alvin Smith, 27 USCI, last Civil War veteran in Summit County, Ohio

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