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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