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Thomas Perry: Douglass' Independent Battery U. S. C. T. Infantry
✦ Invalid Pension: #396,453, Certificate #343,224
(Researcher's note: Thomas Perry enlisted at Leavenworth, Kansas on July 26, 1864, and was mustered into the Independent Battery, USCT Light Artillery as a Private.
On November 14, 1866, Levi Likins of Platte County, Missouri, signed a claim for compensation #161 for enlisted slave Thomas Perry and swore an oath of allegiance before Platte County Circuit Court Clerk George W. Belt. Likins claimed he had acquired title to Thomas Perry "...by purchase from Jonathan Hunt. Claimant had Bill of Sale but it was lost and never recorded. Said slave was purchased in the month of July 1857."
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
4/21/1890