From: LaRueMartin@aol.com
Date: Wed, 9 May 2001 23:25:43 EDT

Aaron Lake, USCT 127th  Civil War soldier. 
 
The 127th U.S. Colored Infantry trained at Camp William Penn in Montgomery 
County, Pa.  Most of the soldiers serving in that regiment were recruited 
from the North, primarily Pennyslvania and New Jersey.  The 127th served in 
Virginia in the closing days of the war, liberating Richmond VA and being at 
Appomattox when Lee surrendered.  After the war's end, the 127th, with many 
Black troops, were shipped to Texas, to guard the border--the Rio 
Grande--against the Emperor Maxmilian's attempt to establish a Mexican 
Empire. Aaron Lake was discharged at Brazos Santiago TX.

His name was included with a number of other Princetonians in an old list of 
Black Civil War vets. 

Also, the database of Civil War troops at

http://www.itd.nps.gov

lists only one Aaron Lake, who served in the 127th USCT.