Description
John Marshall: 79th U. S. C. T. Infantry, Company D, Private.
✦ Mother Pension: #142,864, Certificate #97,764
(Researcher's note: John Marshall enlisted at Fort Scott, Kansas on August 8, 1862, and was mustered as a Private into the 79th USCT Infantry, Company D.
On December 8, 1866, Thomas J. Dye of Platte County, Missouri, signed claim for compensation #111 for enlisted slave John Marshall and swore an oath of allegiance before Platte County notary public James J. Hitt. Dye claimed he had acquired title to John by “…the mother of said John Marshall was owned by the claimant, and the said John Marshall, for who compensation is claimed, was born the property of said Thomas J. Dye, the claimant.”
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
2/22/1867