Description
Seaborn Montgomery: Private, Douglass' Independent Battery U. S. C. T. Infantry Additional service: 10th U. S. Cavalry, Company A. Died December 28, 1909.
✦ Invalid Pension: #558,530, Certificate #686,651
✦ Widow Pension 03/24/1910: #938,784, no Certificate indicated.
(Researcher's note: Seborn Montgomery enlisted at Wyandotte, Kansas, on July 12, 1864 and mustered into the Independent Battery, USCT Light Artillery as a Private.
On November 12, 1866, Joseph Murphy of Platte County, Missouri, signed a claim for compensation #286 for enlisted slave Seborn Montgomery and swore an oath of allegiance before Platte County notary public James J. Hitt. Murphy claimed he had acquired title to Montgomery "...by purchase from J. W. (John W.) Vineyard in Platte County, Missouri, in April 1857."
As of July 1, 2026, Civil War U. S. C. T. Pension Record case files are not currently available on the Internet and would need to be ordered from the National Archives, https://www.archives.gov/veterans/military-service-records/pre-ww-1-records.)Date(s) of Creation
1/7/1886