Description
Benjamin Miller: 79th U. S. C. T. Infantry, Company A., Private. Additional service: 1st Kansas Colored Infantry, Company B. "Not identical with I.O. 1,310,699, Benjamin Miller alias Ben Martin, unassigned, 79th U. S. C. T. Infantry.)
✦ Invalid Pension: #292,640
(Researcher's note: Benjamin Miller enlisted at Fort Scott, Kansas on August 16, 1862, and was mustered as a Private into the 79th USCT Infantry, Company B.
On November 5, 1866, P. E. (Peter E.) Miller of Platte County, Missouri, signed claim for compensation #48 for enlisted slave Benjamin Miller and swore an oath of allegiance before Platte County Circuit Court Clerk George W. Belt. Miller claimed he had acquired title to Benjamin by “…said Benjamin Miller was the property of claimant's father (Lewis Miller) and in the year 1857, said Benjamin Miller for whom compensation is claimed was given to the said claimant P. E. Miller by his father aforesaid."
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
6/17/1879