Lest We Forget - African American Military History by Researcher, Author and Veteran Bennie McRae, Jr.

Woodside Cemetery, Oxford, Ohio

UNITED STATES COLORED VETERANS (CIVIL WAR)

Submitted by
Gayle K. Brown
Smith Library of Regional History
Oxford, Ohio
and
A. Bradley McClain

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BIOGRAPHICAL DATA

By A. Bradley McClain

NAME RANK UNIT DOB-DOD REMARKS
AYERS, BENJAMIN   117 KY INF - Co E 1836-1932 MU-1880 CENSUS
BAYLOR, MARTIN   124 USCT - CO F 1810-1885 B-1880 CENSUS
BEDENBAUGH, JOEL PVT 5 USCT - CO D 1844-1913 B-1880 CENSUS
BOSTON, THOMAS PVT 117 USCT - CO D 1828-1892 B-1880 CENSUS
BROOKS, CARL        
BROOKS, DANIEL   4 USCT - CO G 1812-1906 B-1880 CENSUS
BROWN, GEORGE PVT 8 USCT - CO F UNKN-1912  
BRUNER, PETER PVT 12 USCHA - CO G 1845-1938 MU-1880 CENSUS
BURNET, LEWIS PVT 4 USCT - CO G    
BURNS, RICHARD PVT 9 USCHA - CO C 1841-1919 B-1900 CENSUS
CALVERT, WESLEY PVT 117 USCT - CO D   B-1870 CENSUS
CARTER, MOSES   GUN BOAT - GEN. PRICE 1834-1895 FIREMAN & BLACKSMITH B-1880 CENSUS
CHURCHMAN, ALEXANDER PVT 13 USCT 1849-1898 MU-1880 CENSUS
CHURCHMAN, DAVID PVT 13 USCT - CO B 1842-1921 B-1900 CENSUS
COCHRANE, HARRIS   6 USCT - CO C    
CORBIN, REUBEN PVT 117 USCT - CO A 1837-1906 MU-1880 CENSUS
CRAIG, JOHN SERGT 167 OVI - CO A 1838-1927 W-1880 CENSUS
FIELDS, STERLING   117 USCT - CO E 1839-1918 B-1880 CENSUS
HARRIS, THOMAS PVT 25 USCT - CO B 1844-1880 B-1870 CENSUS
JACKSON, ANDREW CPL 47 OVI- CO K 1846-1933 B-1910 CENSUS
JOHNSON, GEORGE   4 USCT UNKN-1876 B-1870 CENSUS
JONES, BURRILL PVT 99 USCT - CO E 1837-1907 MU-1880 CENSUS
KING, JOHN   15 USCT   B-1900 CENSUS
KINSLOW, J.M. PVT 60 USCT - CO B    
MARSHALL, WALKER PVT 123 USCT - CO C 1827-1893 MU-1880 CENSUS
OVERMAN, ISAAC     1842-1909 B-1880 CENSUS
PIATT, JACOB PVT 13 USCHA - CO L 1834-1887 B-1880 CENSUS
POSTON, GEORGE PVT 16 USCT 1845-1885  
ROCKHOLD, THOMAS B.   3 USCT - CO D? 1842-UNKN B-1870 CENSUS
RUSSELL, HENRY     1842-UNKN MU-1860 CENSUS
STEVENSON, WESLEY PVT 18 USCT - CO A UNKN-1886  
TANNER, WILLIAM        
TAYLOR, ALTON PVT 31 USCT - CO I    
THOMPSON, JOHN        
WILLIAMS, ALFRED PVT 124 USCT - CO C 1822-1901 B-1880 CENSUS
WILLIAMS, CASPER     1842-1928 B-1900 CENSUS
WILLIAMS, ELY PVT 15 USCT - CO E 1842-UNKN B-1900 CENSUS

Peter Bruner

Peter Bruner, 12th U. S. Colored Heavy Artillery Regiment - Company G, was born in 1845 in Winchester, Ky. His father was his slavemaster. He was separated from his mother at an early age. Worked as a tanner while a slave. He ran away many times and, of course, was beaten. He joined the Union army; served and was mustered out. He went to Oxford, Ohio because he had relatives there named Brassfield. He met Frances Procton, daughter of a free farmer (Black). They had four daughters, one of whom was my great grandmother (maternal). Peter Bruner wrote a book about his life entitled A Slave's Adventures Toward Freedom. He worked as a laborer most of his life. For a time, he was employed by Miami University in Oxford, Ohio. He passed in 1938.

Richard Burns

Richard Burns, 9th U. S. Colored Heavy Artillery - Company C, was born free to Daniel and Marian Burns in Morning Sun, Ohio, near Oxford, Ohio. He was Oxford's first Black Council man, around 1886, (Reconstruction). He was a Shakespeare buff. He was also a stone mason. My mother remembers him as sitting in a chair in his front yard. He always wore white shirts with stiff starched collars and spoke with crisp diction. He married Della James, but I do not recall the date. It is in another file. He had two sons and a daughter. His son, Cephas, also a stone mason, was my great grandfather. Richard Burns passed in 1919.
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION: The 12th USCHA was organized at Camp Nelson, Kentucky, July, 1864. The 9th USCHA was organized at Clarksville and Nashville, Tennessee, October 1864.

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