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Additional Bounty and Pension! - - I am prepared to collect claims under recent Acts of Congress, as follows:
• $100 additional bounty to enlisted men who served 3 years.
• $100 additional bounty to men who enlisted for 3 years, and were discharged for wounds.
• $50 additional bounty for 3 years men discharged after 2 years of service.
• $100 additional bounty to heirs of 3 years men who died in the service.
• $100 to Colored Troops who served 2 years, and the same amount to heirs of those who died in the service.
• Pension to Colored Troops and their heirs.
• Increase of pension to soldiers having lost a limb.
• $2 per month to children of deceased soldiers under 16 years of age, in addition to the widows pay of $8.
• 3 months pay proper to officers in commission on March 3 and April 9, 1865. Address, with stamps enclosed.
Oliver Diefendorf, 53 Main St., Leavenworth, Kansas. Noel B. Brooks, well known in Platte County, is associated as co-partner with Mr. Diefendorf.
Important to Claimants for Compensation for Slaves Enlisted in the United States Service. - - The Board for the adjustment of these claims will close its session on the first of February, prox. It is therefore incumbent upon those who have had such claims that immediate attention be given to the preparation and execution of papers, that they may be brought before the Board at as early a day as possible.
All applications made in person or by letter to T. M. O'Brien or Oliver Diefendorf will receive prompt attention.
(Researcher's note: "During the Civil War, two acts of Congress - one passed in 1864 (13 Stat. 11) and one in 1866 (14 Stat. 321) - allowed loyal slave owners whose slaves enlisted or were drafted into the U.S. military to file a claim against the Federal government for loss of the slave's services. The law allowed for up to $300 compensation for slaves who enlisted, and up $100 for slaves who were drafted." A third act of Congress passed on March 30, 1867 (15 Stat. 29) suspended the claims process. https://www.slcl.org/research-learn/genealogy/north-american-genealogy/african-american/slave-compensation-claims
Oliver Diefendorf was a Weston attorney between at least 1851-1857 and was elected as Clerk of the Weston Court of Common Pleas. He settled Stiger's Island on the Missouri River.)Date(s) of Creation
8/30/1866
