Description
Robert Madison: 79th U. S. C. T. Infantry, Company F. Died May 11, 1913.
✦ Invalid Pension: #801,742, Certificate #672,398
(Researcher's note: Robert Madison at Leavenworth, Kansas, on August 20, 1862, and mustered as a Private into the 79th USCT Infantry, Company F.
On November 24, 1866, William Lamar of Platte County, Missouri signed claim for compensation #299 for enlisted slave Robert Madison and swore an oath of allegiance before Weston, Missouri, Court of Common Pleas Clerk William F. Yocum. Lamar claimed he had acquired title to Anthony Lamar by "...that he owned and raised the said Robert Madison as his slave from the infancy of said Robert Madison, being the only owner the said slave ever had."
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
9/9/1890