Description
George Washington 1st: 79th U. S. C. T. Infantry, Company F, Corporal. Additional service: 1st Kansas Colored Infantry, Company F. Regiment changed December 13, 1864, discharged October 1, 1865.
✦ Invalid Pension 06/17/1885: #551,977, Certificate #516,174
✦ Widow Pension: #826,089, Certificate #593,828
George Washington 2nd: 1st: 79th U. S. C. T. Infantry, Company F, Private. Additional service: 1st Kansas Colored Infantry, Company F. Regiment changed January or February 1865, discharged October 1, 1865. Died December 27, 1931.
✦ Invalid Pension: #280,981, Certificate #443,933
(Researcher's note: George Washington was a common name adopted by U. S. C. T. soldiers. Two pension cards identify a George Washington with the 79th U. S. C. T., Company F.
George Washington enlisted at Fort Gibson, Cherokee Nation, on August 20, 1864, and was mustered as a Private into the 79th USCT Infantry, Company F, in Pine Bluff, Arkansas.
On November 5, 1866, Jesse Miller of Platte County, Missouri, signed claim for compensation #38 for enlisted slave George Washington and swore an oath of allegiance before Platte County Circuit Court Clerk George W. Belt.
Miller claimed he had acquired title by “…said George Washington was the property of the wife of said claimant (Margaret A. Waller) at the time of their marriage and has since been the property of claimant through marriage occurred in the year 1848."
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
4/19/1879
