Charles H. Parker
Name: Charles H. Parker
Affiliation: Union
Unit: 3rd USCT Inf.
Race: African American
Owner's Name: n/a
Place of Birth/Residence: Gettysburg, Adams County, PA
Enlistment Date: 12/07/1864
Company: F
Slave at Enlistment?: No
Notes:
Born 1847; Died 1876; Was wounded at Gainesville and suffered from pneumonia; Died at age 29 in Adams County
Source(s):
Compiled Military Service Records of Volunteer Union Soldiers, National Archives, Washington, DC, as scanned on Ancestry.com, U.S., Colored Troops Military Service Records, 1861-1865 [database on-line]; Debra McCauslin, "Black Civil War Veterans from Biglerville?," Adams County Historical Society, http://www.emmitsburg.net/archive_list/articles/history/gb/war/blacks_biglerville.htm, accessed December 14, 2011; Samuel P. Bates, History of Pennsylvania Volunteers, 1861-65, Vol. III (Harrisburg: B. Singerly,1868).
