Samuel McDonald/McDonnell, 11th US Colored Heavy Artillery, Co.H .
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Research is being gathered about Waverly, Pa's fugitive-slave population and black Civil War soldiers.
Samuel was b. in Hagerstown, Pa., about 1840 and enlisted in 1863 in Rhode Island, where he was a teamster.He got a medical discharge in 1865 in Louisiana for chronic "miasmatic disease" and hospitalization for spitting up blood.He is also listed as McDonnell both in Army rolls and the Waverly, PA. census, though it's McDonald on his headstone.He does not appear on the Waverly census pre-1870, and is buried in Hickory Grove Cemetery, date of death not known.
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