Corporal
Jeremiah
Davis
Born about in Delaware, Pennsylvania, 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
Jeremiah Davis is a part of US Black heritage.
Cpl Jeremiah Davis served in the United States Civil War.
Enlisted: 3 Mar 1865
Mustered out: 25 Aug 1865
Side: USA
Regiment(s): Co. B, 54th Mass. Inf. (Colored)
Enlisted: 3 Mar 1865
Mustered out: 25 Aug 1865
Side: USA
Regiment(s): Co. B, 54th Mass. Inf. (Colored)
Jeremiah Davis was born c1830 in Delaware County, Pennsylvania.[1]
Occupations
- 1863: Farmer
Residences
- 1863: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (military enlistment)
Military Service
During the Civil War, he served as a Corporal in the 54th Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry, the first regiment in the United States made up entirely of enlisted men of color. He was 33 years old, single and working as a farmer when he enlisted on 3 March 1863 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Mustered out 25 August 1865 with his regiment.[2]
Company Remarks
On 16 April 1863, he was given extra duty as an Acting Corporal.[3]
Research Notes
As new information gets added, double-check these as possible duplicates:
There's a surprising paucity of records with his name so far. There's a Bartender in the 1868 Philadelphia city directory who's a maybe. There's a Welsh American who I'm pretty confident isn't him in Pennsylvania in the federal census.
Some possibilities:
- Year: 1860; Census Place: West Chester, Chester, Pennsylvania; Roll: M653_1094; Page: 641; Family History Library Film: 805094
- Jeremiah Davis / b. abt 1828 Delaware / Black / Day Laborer
- There are so many 54th soldiers who enlisted in West Chester that this one seems most likely among the candidates so far.
- Probably the same person Year: 1870; Census Place: West Chester, Chester, Pennsylvania; Roll: M593_1325; Page: 189A; Family History Library Film: 552824
- Year: 1860; Census Place: Philadelphia Ward 23 Precinct 10, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; Roll: M653_1174; Page: 913; Family History Library Film: 805174
- Jeremiah Davis / b. abt. 1825 Pennsylvania / Race unspecified / Shovel Maker
No luck finding a match via Find a Grave or the 1890 US Veterans Schedules yet, even with some pretty creative wild card searched.
He was known to be in New York through military correspondence at some point after the war. No better luck poking around New York records yet.
Projects
Sources
- ↑ Compiled Military Service Record: Moore, George, "Compiled Military Service Records of Volunteer Union Soldiers Who Served with the United States Colored Troops," 54th Massachusetts Infantry (Colored), Images available on FamilySearch.
- ↑ Emilio, Roster p. 345
- ↑ Fold3.com, Company B April 1863 Remarks
- 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.)
- Fold3.com. Free Access Civil War Records 1-15 April 2018. 54th Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry, Company Remarks.
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