Pinn, Robert A - Age [Blank], Year: 1864 - 5th US Colored Infantry, Misc Service Cards, La-Yo

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Pinn, Robert A - Age [Blank], Year: 1864 - 5th US Colored Infantry, Misc Service Cards, La-Yo

1890-1912

https://catalog.archives.gov/id/100293562

This series of records documents the military service of Union volunteer soldiers who served during the American Civil War. The records consist of jackets (folders) containing cards on which information relating to individuals, companies, and regiments of the Volunteer Service of the United States during the Civil War have been copied from original records such as muster rolls, returns, descriptive books, and morning reports. Personal papers consisting chiefly of enlistment papers, substitute certificates, casualty sheets, death reports, prisoner-of-war papers, and miscellaneous correspondence are filed either in the jacket with the carded records relating to the individual or alphabetically by soldier's name at the end of the file for each state. In many of the files there are index cards to the names appearing on regimental papers that are filed with the muster rolls.

3 cards

eng, Latn

National Archives Library, National Archives Records Administration

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SNAC Resource ID: 11631166

National Archives Library, National Archives Records Administration

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Pinn, Robert Alexander, 1843-1911

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Robert Alexander Pinn (March 1, 1843 – January 5, 1911) was an African American Union Army soldier during the American Civil War and a recipient of America's highest military decoration—the Medal of Honor—for his actions at the Battle of Chaffin's Farm. Robert A. Pinn was one of only four Black Americans from Ohio to receive the Medal of Honor during the American Civil War. Pinn was born on a Perry Township farm and was the sixth of 10 children born to William and Zilphia Penn. He attended s...