Description
Jerry Dressing / Dressin: 79th U. S. C. T. Infantry, Company A. Transferred January of February 1865, discharged October 1, 1865. Additional service: 1st Kansas Colored Infantry, Company A. "See W.O. 1,087,243, Cateo Clarridy, 57th U. S. C. T. Infantry, Company G." Died 1866 in Leavenworth, Kansas.
(Researcher's note: Jerry Dressin enlisted at Fort Scott, Kansas, on August 8, 1862, and was mustered as a Private into the 79th USCT Infantry, Company A.
On October 31, 1866, Smith Calvert of Platte County, Missouri, signed claim for compensation #11 for enlisted slave Jerry Dressin and swore an oath of allegiance before Platte County Circuit Court Clerk George W. Belt. Calvert claimed he had acquired title by “…the mother of said Jerry Dressin belonged to the said claimant, and the said slave Jerry Dressin 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
10/1/1865