Born in Meigs County
John Crumbles, Navy, USS Exchange
Enlisted in Meigs County
David Archer, 27 USCI, August 22, 1864
Green Leftridge, 9 USCHA and 88 USCI
Harrison Leftridge, 9 USCHA and 88 USCI
John W. Newlin, 27 USCI, August 22, 1864
You can look at the names of the other Black Civil War soldiers, sailors, and veterans from Meigs County, or you can view the Ohio county pages to find African Americans who served from or lived in the state.… Read more
1850 Census
John Crumbles, Navy, USS Exchange
You can look at the names of the other Black Civil War soldiers, sailors, and veterans from Meigs County, or you can view the Ohio county pages to find African Americans who served from or lived in the state.… Read more
1890 Census
Stephen Cobb, widow Jane, 9 USCHA and 15 USCI
George Patterson, 9 USCHA and 13 USCI
William Powell, 9 USCHA and 15 USCI
Edward Preston, 9 USCHA and 13 USCI
Samuel Robinson, 9 USCHA and 15 USCI
Woodson Vaughn, 9 USCHA and 88 USCI
Benjamin Wanzer (Wanzo), 9 USCHA and 15 USCI
Henry Wanzer (Wanzo), 9 USCHA and 15 USCI
William Wanzer (Wanzo), 9 USCHA and 15 USCI
Alpheus Warner, 9 USCHA and 88 USCI
Miles Cemetery
Edward Preston, 9 USCHA and 13 USCI
Woodson Vaughn, 9 USCHA and 88 USCI, died April 20, 1898
Alpheus Warner, 9 USCHA and 88 USCI
Union Ridge Cemetery
George Patterson, 9 USCHA and 13 USCI, died June 21, 1893
William Powell, 9 USCHA and 15 USCI, died March 26, 1897
Benjamin Wanzell (Wanzer, Wanso), 9 USCHA and 15 USCI, died August 14, 1893
Henry Wanzell (Wanzer, Wanzo), 9 USCHA and 15 USCI, died June 11, 1914
William Wanzo (Wanzer), 9 USCHA and 15 USCI, died October 17, 1927
You can look at the names of the other Black Civil War soldiers, sailors, and veterans from Meigs County, or you can view the Ohio county pages to find African Americans who served from or lived in the state.… Read more
1890 Census
William Faniel, 9 USCHA and 88 USCI
Daniel Jackson, 5 USCI
George Miller, 9 USCHA and 15 USCI
Rufus Mitchell, 9 USCHA and 88 USCI
Charles N. Scott, 9 USCHA and 88 USCI
James W. Smith, 41 USCI
Charles G. Starks, 5 USCI
Beech Grove Cemetery
George Miller, 9 USCHA, died January 16, 1917
Negro Cemetery
Daniel Jackson, 5 USCI, died December 20, 1890
You can look at the names of the other Black Civil War soldiers, sailors, and veterans from Meigs County, or you can view the Ohio county pages to find African Americans who served from or lived in the state.… Read more
1890 Census
George W. Evans, 15 USCI
James H. Guthrie, 27 USCI
Summer Moss, 9 USCHA
Stephen Newby, 5 USCI
Jerry Simmons, 27 USCI
Alexander Stewart, 5 USCI
Hill Cemetery
Green Leftridge, 9 USCHA, died 1889
You can look at the names of the other Black Civil War soldiers, sailors, and veterans from Meigs County, or you can view the Ohio county pages to find African Americans who served from or lived in the state.… Read more
In late October 1864, the men in the 27th United States Colored Infantry (USCI) participated in their second battle while serving in the Army of the Potomac’s IX Corps. Both Col. Albert M. Blackman and Lt. Col. John W. Donnellan were injured on the first day of fighting along Boydton Plank Road in the battle of Hatcher’s Run, Virginia (October 27-28, 1864). Fifteen soldiers from the regiment were killed or wounded, including seventeen-year-old James H. Qualls from Jackson County, Ohio.
Qualls enlisted at Berlin Crossroads, where he lived with his Virginia-born parents, Arthur and Lucy (Shepperd) .… Read more
“Mr. Qualls, who is a one armed veteran…colored citizen” Read More »