5 USCI

Gallia County – Green Township

U.S. Civil War Draft Registration Records, 1863-1865, 11th Congressional District
John Clark
William Coles
George Cordell
Jesse Collins
Frank Coleman
Ottawa Crawley

1890 Census
Jesse Collier, 27 USCI
William Deed, 27 and 23 USCI
Spencer Ford, 5 USCI
Peter Hogan, 27 USCI

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Gallia County, Ohio: In The News

Gallipolis Journal, August 8, 1868

Samuel Ray, late Co. I, 2d Regiment W. Va. Cav., and Henry Festerman, Co. C, 5th U.S. Colored Troops, will find it to their advantage to send their post office address to E. W. Clark, Jr. Washington, D.C.


Gallipolis Journal, September 3, 1874

THOMAS WILLIAMS, late of Co. D, 31st Regiment, United States Colored Troops, will learn something of advantage to him by calling on or addressing EBEN N. HARPER, Att’y, Gallipois, Ohio.


Gallipolis Daily Tribune, June 18, 1898

Fell Dead.
Mr Leonard Johnston, and old colored soldier living at Evergreen, ate a hearty dinner today and took sick right away after rising from the table and died before a doctor could be called  He was a good old colored man near 80 years old.… Read more

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Trumbull County – Other Sources

Born in Trumbull County
Charles Titus, 5 USCI

Kinsman – 1850 Census
Charles Titus, 5 USCI

Weathersfield Township – 1860 Census
James H. Bronson, 5 USCI

Enlisted in Trumbull County
James H. Bronson, 5 USCI, July 4, 1863
Charles Croomes, 5 USCI, August 13, 1864, in Warren
Charles A. Garlick, 3 USCHA, March 2, 1865, in Warren
Washington Moore, 5 USCI, August 12, 1863
Benjamin F. Scott, 5 USCI, July 30, 1863
James Webb, 5 USCI, August 11, 1863

The Military History of Ohio…, “Roll of Honor of Ohio’s Rank and File from Trumbull County in the War of the Rebellion,” 1889.… Read more

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Trumbull County – Warren

1880 Census
Charles Hill, 12 USCI

1890 Census
Abrahm Herron, 25 USCI
Charles Hill, 12 USCI

1900 Census
Charles Hill, 12 USCI

Oakwood Cemetery
Charles M. Hill, 12 USCI, died May 20, 1912

Old Mahoning Cemetery
Benjamin F. Scott, 5 USCI, died Febraury 22, 1878

A Twentieth Century History of Trumbull County, Ohio, vol.1, 1909
Benjamin Morgan, 27 USCI
Thomas Greu
Charles Hill, 12 USCI


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Western Reserve Chronicle, Warren, OH, October 19, 1864

Colored Soldiers.
In a late engagement near Petersburg, in which colored troops participated, Charles Titus was killed, and James Bronson severely wounded – reported fatally. Both were colored men, and previous to enlisting in the army, lived in this place.



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