Description
Henry Browning: 79th U. S. C. T. Infantry, Company I, Sergeant.
✦ Invalid Pension: #1,105,855, Certificate #965,602
✦ Widow Pension: #653,225, Certificate #465,781
(Researcher's note: Henry Browning enlisted at Leavenworth, Kansas, on March 15, 1863, and was mustered as a Private into the 79th USCT Infantry, Company J.
On January 19, 1867, Reuben Browning of Platte County, Missouri, signed claim for compensation #263 for enlisted slave Henry Browning and swore an oath of allegiance before Weston, Missouri, Court of Common Pleas Clerk William F. Yocum. Browning claimed he had acquired title to Henry by “…that he owned him from infancy and raised him; that he was born the slave of affiant."
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
4/15/1892