Description
Charles Jackson: 79th U. S. C. T. Infantry, Company H and K, Corporal. Died August 21, 1917.
✦ Invalid Pension: #441,454, Certificate #715,677
✦ Widow Pension 09/10/1917: #1,106,983, Certificate #839,367
( Researcher's note: Charles Jackson enlisted at Fort Scott, Kansas on March 1, 1863, and was mustered as a Private into the 79th USCT Infantry, Company H.
On December 29, 1866, Thomas F. Stone of Platte County, Missouri, signed claim for compensation #98 for enlisted slave Charles Jackson and swore an oath of allegiance before Platte County notary public James J. Hitt.
Stone claimed he had acquired title to Charles by “…purchase from Agnes F. Flanagan of Scott County in the State of Kentucky on the 17th day of October 1853.”
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
2/28/1882