CEM - HENRY BURKE #1
Southeast Ohio Cemeteries
U. S. COLORED CIVIL WAR VETERANS
Researched, compiled and submitted by Henry Burke, Marietta, Ohio
Name | Unit | Rank | Died | Interred | Remarks |
Charles Burk(e) | 27th USCT | Pvt | 12 Mar. 1919 | Putnam Cemetery (Devola - Marietta) | Wounded at "Sugar Loaf Hill", Battle of Fort Fisher N.C., in Feb. 1865. Discharged and returned home to Stafford, Monroe County, Ohio. |
Nimrod Burke | 23rd USCT | 1st Sgt. | 15 July 1914 | Soldier's Circle, Greenlawn Cemetery, Chillicothe, Ohio. | Participated in the Battle of Appomatox when Gen. Robert E. Lee surrenderd. |
Edward Giles | 5th USCT | Pvt | 12th Feb. 1866 | Mound Cemetery (Marietta) | Edward Giles was shot by his former "overseer" on a plantation in New Madrid, Mo., on the 12th of February 1866, when he traveled from his new home at Marietta, Ohio to New Madrid, Mo., to bring his mother-in-law to live in Marietta. Instead, she escorted his dead body back to Marietta for burial in the Mound Cemetery. |
Issac Solomon | 27th USCT | Pvt | 9th Jan. 1908 | Oak Grove Cemetery, (Marietta) | Issac Solomon was wounded in the forehead on "Sugar Loaf Hill" in the Battle of Fort Fisher in Feburary 1865. |
(More on Southeastern Ohio later.)
SOURCE: Quartermaster General's Office, General Orders, No.52, Aug.27, 1867.
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