African American Soldier of the Civil War Buried at Peterboro

African American Soldier of the Civil War Buried at Peterboro. . , Henry Charles, Private, Co.F., 55th Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry was born on April 24, 1844 or 1845. He served in the sister regiment to the 54 Mass., immortalized in the movie “Glory.” Henry was discharged on August 29, 1865. Henry died on May 27, 1922, at Peterboro. , John Hall, Co.B., 26th U.S. Colored Troops, died on September 26, 1890. No age is given on his gravestone. , John Munson, Private, Co.K and Co.H., 22nd N.Y. Cavalry, was born March 15, 1833. In the official records of this white cavalry company, he is listed as Jehu Munson. John died in 1903. , Gerrit Smith Russell, Principal Musician, Co.B., 8th U.S. Colored Troops, was born in Peterboro in 1842, the son of Samuel and Harriet (Sims) Russell. He first accompanied the 157th N.Y. Volunteer regiment as a fifer. After Fredericksburg in 1863, he enlisted in the 8th U.S.C.T., Russell died on November 24, 1906 in Clinton, New York. , Richard Russell, Corporal, Co.B., 8th U.S.C.T., was born in Kentucky in 1838, the son of Samuel and Harriet (Sims) Russell. Richard was unofficially a member of the 157th N.Y. Volunteer Infantry until after the Emancipation Proclamation. On August 20, 1863, he enlisted in the 8th United States Colored Troops. He was discharged on November 10, 1865. He died on March 12, 1895 in Peterboro. , Hanson Williams, Corporal, Co.H., 22nd N.Y. Cavalry, was born in Maryland in 1841. On December 14, 1863, he enlisted in the white cavalry company. He was discharged on August 1, 1865. , , Other African American Civil War Soldiers with Peterboro Connections , William Sidney Charles, Private, Co.B., 8th U.S. Colored Troops, entered service as a substitute in 1864. He was killed at the age of 26 in a battle in a southern state and buried in Florida. , Henry Hall, Private, 8th N.Y. Cavalry, entered the service on August 8, 1863. Hall lived in Smithfield as late as 1870. , Albert LeRoy Robbins, Private, Co.F., 55th Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry, was born March 28, 1840 or 1841. Following the war, he was Gerrit Smith Miller’s coachman. He was O.G. of the Daniel Torrey GAR Post #144, organized at Peterboro on February 22, 1880. , Labin O. Robbins, Private Co.F., 55th Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry, was born in the Town of Brookfield in 1838. Robbins lived in Smithfield for a time after the war, dying in Oriskany Falls in 1899. , John Sullivan, Private, entered the service in 1865 at age 29 and died that same year in New Orleans of illness, leaving a wife and two children in Smithfield. He is buried in New Orleans. , Research by Donna Dorrance Burdick, Town of Smithfield Historian.