Private
Jesse
Gray
Born about in United States
[uncertain]
[uncertain]Son of [father unknown] and [mother unknown]
[sibling(s) unknown]
[spouse(s) unknown]
[children unknown]
Died [date unknown]
in United States
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Biography
Private Jesse Gray served in the United States Civil War.
Side: USA
Side: USA
Occupations
- 1863: Laborer
Residences
- 1863: Harrisburg, Pennsylvania (military enlistment)
Military Service
During the Civil War, he served as a Private in Company E of the 54th Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry of the Union Army, the first regiment in the United States made up entirely of enlisted men of color. He was about 30 years old, single and working as a laborer when he enlisted on 30 April 1863 from Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. Mustered out 20 August 1865 with his regiment.[1]
Research Notes
Possible census match?
- Year: 1860; Census Place: Dickinson, Cumberland, Pennsylvania; Roll: M653_1102; Page: 900; Family History Library Film: 805102
- Jesse Gray / Race unspecified / Farmhand / living with the Whooley family (German immigrant farmer Christ., his wife Nancy, and their children)
Projects
Sources
- Emilio, Luis Fenollosa. History of the Fifty-Fourth Regiment of Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry, 1863-1865, Boston, Massachusetts: Boston Book Co., 1891 (1st ed.) and 1894 (2nd ed.)
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Year: 1860; Census Place: Dickinson, Cumberland, Pennsylvania; Roll: M653_1102; Page: 900; Family History Library Film: 805102