Delaware County
African-American Civil War Soldiers
Buried in Beech Grove Cemetery
Muncie, Indiana
Contributed by:Mark Kreps
ROLL OF HONOR

NAME	REGIMENT/COMPANY
John Adams*	8th USCI - Co A
Marshall Bramblett	Confederate - KY
Cato Chaney	54th Mass - Co D
John Douglas(s)*#	28th USCT - Co E
Enoch Fletcher*#	12th USCHA - Co F
Silas Foster	109th USCT - Co E
Foster Fry	8th USCT - Co G
Wesley Gammons	101st USCT - Co B
Charles W Gilmore#	9th USCHA - 100th USCI - Co F
Charles Wesley Haines	27th USCT - Co E
Thomas Hawkins	USCT - 16th
William Jones	10th USCT - Co E
Charles Lampkins*#	115th USCT- Co K
Daniel D H Lewis*	54th Mass - Co K
Edward McCray#	14th USCI - Co A
Jordan McCray#	8th USCI - Co H
Wesley Means*#	28th USCT - Co C
Owen Million	6th USCC - Co L
John A Morin	27th USCI - Co B
Lewis Newell*	72nd USCI - Co D
King Solomon Outland#	55th Mass - Co G
John Shoecraft*#	9th USCHA - Co D 100th USCI - Co F
Silas Shoecraft#	Recruiter - 28th USCT
William David Shoecraft	28th USCT - Co D
David Skelton	103rd USCI - Co A
William Walker	19th Inf - orderly/cook
William Washington	55th Mass - Co I
Joseph Wilson	18th USCT

* Known descendants living in East Central Indiana
# Had unmarked graves until recently when new upright markers were installed at Beechgrove Cemetery

Delaware County African-American Civil War Soldiers
Who Once Lived In Delaware County
But Are Buried Elsewhere

NAME	REGIMENT/COMPANY	PLACE OF BURIAL
John Ampy	23rd USCT	Unknown
James Cook	23rd USCT	Unknown
Thomas J Davis	27th USCT - Co K	Dayton, OH
Moses J Frazier	5th USCHA - Co H	Idlewood, MI
Marion Gammons	28th Mass - Co?	Bethel, IN
John Hill	55th Mass - Co G	Dayton, OH
Reuben Means	28th USCT	Madison County?, IN
Lorenzo Partridge	28th USCT	Unknown
Nathan Reynolds	15th USCT - Co H	Union City, IN
Elias Shoecraft	23rd USCT	Grant Co, IN
Thomas Willis	122th USCI - Co B	Mitchell, IN

References:
African American Soldiers from Indiana, by Coy D. Robbins Beechgrove Cemetery Office
Civil War folders, Delaware Co. Archives, Bracken Library, BSU
Civil War Veteran card index and accompanying microfilm at Local History & Gen. Library
Delaware Co., Center Township Census of 1880, Bracken Library, BSU
Roll of Honor, published 1915, copies available at DCHS
The Genealogist and Historian of Delaware Co. Historical Alliance, Fall 1997, pgs. 77-83
Veterans Records from National Archives of Washington D.C.
Researchers from Muncie Commission on the Social Status of Black Males include: Hurley Goodall, Bessie & Lonnie Jordan and Mark Kreps

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