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The U.S.C.T. Pension Project

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U.S.C.T. Pension Project!

 

This site is a volunteer effort dedicated to the transcription
of pension records related to the United States Colored Troops.

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Why Pension Files?

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Pension records are full of invaluable info!

Genealogists and scholars alike will find information they simply will not find elsewhere. Like records relating to:

  • Pre-war marriages of enslaved persons
  • Medical and health histories
  • Names of parents and children
  • Skillsets and trades

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Regimental Histories 29th Regiment from Connecticut at Beaufort, South Carolina
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NEWLY ADDED FILES

Claim for Pension of Ephraim Crandall
Ephraim Crandall [WC132673]
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Lewis O. Dove [WC147996]
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Catherine Tyson Widow's Pension Claim
Jerry Tyson [WC94018]
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Notable Quotes

  • [T]he marriage ceremony was performed by a colored preacher named Abram Allen & as Rosette was a house servant, the marriage was performed in the dwelling house of Mr Perry.

    Rufus W. Wharton

    Confederate Officer

  • Daniel Anderson, says he was at the battle of Fort Pillow and was detailed to assist in burying the dead the next day. . .and recognized the body of deceased among the dead and helped bury him.

    Daniel Anderson

  • [T]hat he...was captured by the Rebels, but was with them only two days when he managed to make his escape...

    Jerry Stewart

    Co. A, 11th U.S.C.T.

  • [Rachel] left her owners with her said husband, and was with him continuously to the day of his death at Fort Pillow...

    Rachel Parks

    Widow of Ransom Parks

  • ...the exposure incident thereto caused a cold which settled on his lungs, fever also set in & carried him of (sic), that he died at Memphis Tenn. on the 18 day of May 1865.

    Samuel Love & Nathaniel Bailey

    Members of Co. A, 11th USCT

  • I am a poor woman struggling by washing clothes to keep the wolf from my door.

    Martha Hodges

    Widow of Harrison Hodges, 11 U.S.C.T.

  • [Y]ou are advised that your above cited claim for restoration to the pension rolls...was rejected November 20, 1893, on the ground that you had been guilty of open, notorious adulterous cohabitation since the soldier's death....

    James L. Davenport

    Commissioner of Pensions

  • [He] was in the battle at Fort Pillow on the 12" of April 1864, and knows that the said Benton [Deloni] was in the said battle and was killed, that he saw him after he was dead....

    Affidavit of Jerry Stewart

    Sergeant, Company A, 11th U.S.C.T.

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