Description
Peter Steel: Douglass' Independent Battery U. S. C. T. Infantry, Private.
✦ Invalid Pension: #769,376, Certificate #553,327
(Researcher's note: Peter Steel enlisted at Leavenworth, Kansas, on July 26, 1864, and mustered into the Independent Battery, USCT Light Artillery as a Private.
On December 4, 1866, Oliver Steele of Platte County, Missouri signed claim for compensation #104 for an enlisted slave Peter Still and swore an oath of allegiance before Platte County notary public James J. Hitt in Weston, Missouri.
Steele claimed he had acquired title to Peter by "...purchase from Oliver Norman on the 2nd day of August 1849, per Bill of Sale attached." "Bill of Sale - 19 years old, Bargained, sold and delivered to Oliver Steele a Negro boy Peter, a slave for life, the right and truth of which I warrant to the Oliver Steele, the boy is sound and for the amount of $750 the receipt of which is hereby acknowledged. Oliver Norman August 2, 1849."
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