Description
Green Washington: 79th U. S. C. T. Infantry, Company G, Private. Additional service: 1st Kansas Colored Infantry, Company G. Died April 21, 1913.
✦ Invalid Pension: #210,152, Certificate #143,402
✦ Widow Pension: #179,942, no Certificate indicated
(Researcher's note: Green Washington enlisted at Fort Scott, Kansas on February 7, 1863, and was mustered as a Private into the 79th USCT Infantry, Company G.
On November 1, 1866, Amanda Remington (nee' Amanda Adkins) of Platte County, Missouri, signed claim for compensation #47 for enlisted slave Green Washington and swore an oath of allegiance before Platte County Circuit Court Clerk George W. Belt. Remington claimed she had acquired title to Green “…by purchase by her husband, William C. Remington, now deceased (note: December 20, 1864), as per Bill of Sale herewith.”
Bill of Sale: "Know all men by these presents that I, John Adkins of Platte County, Missouri, have this day for and in consideration of the sum of $900 to me in hand paid, bargained and sold to William C. Remington a Negro boy named Green aged about 11 years old and of a copper color; And I hereby warrant said boy to be sound in body and mind and a slave for life. Given under my hand this 13th day of June 1857 in the presence of R. H. Munday. John Adkins."
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
11/11/1875