Description
Douglas Grimes: 79th U. S. C. T. Infantry, Company F, Private. Additional service: 1st Kansas Colored Infantry, Company F.
✦ Invalid Pension: #278,806, Certificate #366,991
✦ Widow Pension: #516,844, Certificate #309,622
(Researcher's note: Douglas Grimes enlisted at Topeka, Kansas on September 16, 1862, and was mustered as a Private into the 79th USCT Infantry, Company F.
On November 24, 1866, Lewis Grimes of Clay County, Missouri, signed claim for compensation #188 for enlisted slave Douglas Grimes and swore an oath of allegiance before Clay County Notary Public James E. Lincoln. Grimes claimed he had acquired title to Douglas by "...purchase and delivery of the slave.” Handwritten notes at the bottom of Lewis Grimes' claim form indicate a claim for "Douglas Grimes - purchase" and "Joseph Grimes - raised. A USCT file and a claim for compensation for Joseph Grimes was not found.
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
4/11/1879