Description
Bartlett Jennings: 79th U. S. C. T. Infantry, Company I, Corporal. Killed April 18, 1864, at Poison Springs, Arkansas.
✦ Mother Pension: #272,850, no Certificate indicated
(Researcher's note: "The Battle of Poison Spring (April 18, 1864) was a brutal Civil War engagement in Ouachita County, Arkansas. Fought during the Union's Red River Campaign, it is remembered as one of the war's most violent atrocities, where Confederate forces ambushed a Union foraging train and massacred surrendering Black soldiers."
Bartlett Jennings enlisted at Leavenworth, Kansas, on March 15, 1863, and was mustered as a Private into the 79th USCT Infantry, Company I.
On October 31, 1866, Smith Calvert of Platte County, Missouri, signed claim for compensation #12 for enlisted slave Bartlett Jennings and swore an oath of allegiance before Platte County Circuit Court Clerk George W. Belt.
Calvert claimed he had acquired title to Bartlett by “…the mother of said Bartlett Jennings belonged to and lived in the family of the said claimant, and the said slave Bartlett Jennings was born and remained up to the date of his enlistment the slave of said claimant.” Numerous Platte County Calverts were enslavers.
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
6/28/1880