Description
Joseph Howard: 67th U. S. C. T. Infantry, Company I. Additional service: 9th U. S. Colored Cavalry, Company B and 65th U. S. C. T. Infantry, Company B.
✦ Invalid Pension: #891,323, Certificate #785,360
(Researcher's note: Joseph Howard enlisted at Liberty, Missouri, on January 1, 1864, and was mustered in as a Private in the 67th USCT Infantry, Company C.
On December 20, 1866, John L. Howard of Clay County, Missouri, signed claim for compensation #2209 for enlisted slave Joseph Howard and swore an oath of allegiance before Clay County notary public James E. Lincoln in Liberty, Missouri. Howard claimed he had acquired title to Joseph by "...said slave was born his property." Numerous Platte County Howards 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
7/29/1890