Description
Ambrose Hill: 79th U. S. C. T. Infantry, Unassigned. Additional service: 1st Kansas Colored Infantry, Unassigned. Died July 6, 1912, at National Military Home, Kansas.
✦ Widow Pension: #1,017,167, no Certificate indicated
(Researcher's note: Ambrose Hill enlisted at Leavenworth, Kansas on March 6, 1865, and was mustered as a Private into the 79th USCT Infantry.
On November 13, 1866, John T. Murdock of Platte County, Missouri, signed claim for compensation #22 for enlisted slave Adam Hill and swore an oath of allegiance before Platte County Circuit Court Clerk George W. Belt.
Murdock claimed he had acquired title by “…the mother of said Ambrose Hill was the property of claimant and the said Ambrose Hill, the slave for whom compensation is claimed, was born the property of John T. Murdock, claimant.”
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
11/10/1913