Photo by isabel at Find-A-Grave.

William Collin Revels. Enlisted and mustered on 6/5/1861 at Surry County, NC as a Colored Musician (Fifer) in Company H 21st NC Infantry. He was Wounded 3/14/1862 New Berne, NC, Wounded 5/25/1862 Winchester, VA, and Wounded 7/2/1863 Gettysburg, PA. First appears in the census in 1850. Listed in census records as "mulatto." Buried in Lovells Chapel Cemetery, Pilot Mountain, Surry County, NC. Applied for and received a pension for his service. William had a brother named John who was a year older. In the book "Black Confederates" by Barrow, Segars, and Rosenberg, they list a "Henson Revels as a Private in the 1st Battalion NC Heavy Artillery." (page 54) North Carolina Troops 1861-65, A Roster, makes no mention of his race. He only served 5/15/1862 to 6/30/1862 and was then discharged. On 7/17/1862 a John Revels (again no mention of his race,) enlisted in Company K 57th NC infantry. He died of hepatitis, pneumonia, & fever) in a Petersburg, Virginia hospital, 3/1/1865. (Williams brother ???) Maybe someone with access to fold 3 could check.

Photo of William's son, David at find-a-grave : http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=56999586

Photo of David's daughter and William's granddaughter Lillie Mae : http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=52911458