Regiment: 21st United States Colored Troops
Company: C
Rank: Private
Mustered-in date and place: 11 May 1863 at Hilton Head Island, South Carolina, United States
Mustered-out date and place: 25 April 1866 at Charleston, South Carolina, United States
Copy of portrait of Leonard Wilson Roane.
Leonard Wilson Roane (8 September 1874-21 December 1912), the son of Patrick Henry Roane, Sr. and Susan Price, was born on 18 September 1874 in Varina, Henrico County, Virginia, United States. He married Julia Ella Bates on 1 April 1896 in Varina. They were the parents of two daughters Susan "Susie" Julia Roane and Ella Bates Roane. He later married Abigail "Abbie" Smith.
Leonard worked as a shipbuilding engineer in Newport News, Virginia, where he died on 21 December 1912.
He was the 4x great-grandson of Patrick Henry, Governor of Virginia and Revolutionary War Patriot.
Regiment: 115th United States Colored Troops
Company: F
Rank: Private
Enrollment date and place: 1 September 1864 in Bowling Green, Kentucky, United States
Veteran's death date and place: 20 July 1865 in New Orleans, Louisiana, United States
Regiment: 109th United States Colored Troops Infantry
Company: H
Rank: Private; Corporal
Enrollment date and place: 16 May 1864 in Lebanon, Kentucky, United States
Veteran's death date and place: 30 September 1864 in Ashland, Kentucky, United States
Regiment: 108th United States Colored Troops Infantry
Company: F
Rank: Private
Enrollment date and place: 28 June 1864 in Louisville, Kentucky, United States
Discharge date and place: 21 March 1866 in Vicksburg, Mississippi, United States
Veteran's death date and place: 13 February 1895
123rd United States Colored Troops Infantry
Company: F
Rank: Private; Sergeant
Enrollment date and place: 24 September 1864 in Camp Nelson, Kentucky, United States
Veteran's death date and place: 16 September 1865 in Louisville, Kentucky, United States
Regiment: 79th United States Colored Troops;1st Kansas Colored Infantry
Company: B
Rank: Private
Mustered-in date and place: 10 August 1862 in Wyandotte County, Kansas, United States
Mustered-out date and place: 1 November 1862 in Wyandotte County, Kansas, United States
Copy of portrait of Lewis Matthews.
Lewis Matthews (1824-<1910), the son of his enslaver Drury Cook Matthews and the enslaved Darkiss (Dorcas), was born in 1824 in Edgefield County, South Carolina, United States. He married Martha Bottom who was born a free woman of color in 1843 in Edgefield County, South Carolina. Martha died in Pickens, Edgefield County, South Carolina between 1881 and 1890. Lewis and Martha Matthews were the parents of a large family.
Regiment: 109th United States Colored Troops Infantry
Company: H
Rank: Private Enrollment date and place: 30 June 1864
Veteran's death date and place: 9 August 1865 in Indianola, Texas, United States
Regiment: 2nd South Carolina Colored Troops; 34th United States Colored Troops
Company: D
Rank: Private
Mustered-in date and place: 25 February 1864 at Fernandina, Florida, United States
Mustered-out date and place: 28 February 1866 at Jacksonville, Florida, United States
Regiment: 34th United States Colored Troops; Navy
Company: D; USS Vermont; USS Housatonic
Rank: Private; Landsman
Mustered-in date and place: 28 July 1862 at Port Royal, South Carolina, United States; 1864 at Hilton Head, South Carolina, United States [Army]
Mustered-out date and place: 10 December 1862 at Port Royal, South Carolina, United States; 1864 [Army]
Regiment: 33rd United States Colored Infantry
Company: A
Rank: Private
Mustered-in date and place: 15 December 1862 at Beaufort, South Carolina, United States
Mustered-out date and place: 31 January 1866 at Morris Island, South Carolina, United States
Regiment: 33rd United States Colored Troops
Company: D
Rank: Private
Mustered-in date and place 1 Nov 1862 in Beaufort, South Carolina, United States
Mustered-out date and a place: 31 June 1866 in Charleston, South Carolina, United States
Regiment: 108th United States Colored Infantry
Company: G
Rank: Private
Enrollment date and place: 5 July 1864 in Louisville, Kentucky, United States
Discharge date: 31 March 1866
Veteran's death date and place: 9 August 1866 in Portland, Kentucky, United States
Regiment: 125th United States Colored Troops Infantry
Company: K
Rank: Private
Enrollment date and place: 24 May 1865 in Columbia, Kentucky, United States
Veteran's death date and place: 1 April 1866 in Cairo, Illinois, United States
Regiment: 4th United States Colored Troops Cavalry
Company: H
Rank: Private
Mustered-in date and place: 8 August 1864 at New Orleans, Louisiana, United States
Mustered-out date and place: 20 March 1866 at New Orleans, Louisiana, United States
Regiment: 21st United States Colored Troops Infantry
Company: D
Rank: Private
Mustered-in date and place: 1 June 1863
Mustered-out date and place: 25 April 1866 at Charleston, South Carolina, United States
