Description
William Belt enlisted at Leavenworth, Kansas, on December 12, 1864, and mustered into the Independent Battery, USCT Light Artillery as a Private. On November 22, 1866, Mary A. Hollingsworth of Platte County, Missouri, signed a claim for compensation #28 for enlisted slave William Belt.
Hollingsworth claimed she had acquired title by "...the said William Belt was the property of her husband, Benjamin F. Hollingsworth, deceased, and at his death, viz, on the 25th day of February 1860, the said William Belt became the property of said Mary A. Hollingsworth, the claimant."Date(s) of Creation
2/25/1860
