Description
Dennis Perkins: Douglass' Independent Battery U. S. C. T. Infantry
✦ Mother Pension: #492,080, Certificate #320,072
(Researcher's note: Dennis Perkins enlisted at Leavenworth, Kansas, on December 12, 1864, and mustered into the Independent Battery, USCT Light Artillery as a Private.
On December 4, 1866, Oliver Steele of Platte County, Missouri signed claim for compensation #102 for an enlisted slave Dennis Perkins and swore an oath of allegiance before Platte County notary public James J. Hitt in Weston, Missouri. Steele claimed he had acquired title to Dennis Perkins by "...purchase from D. C. (David C.) Hunt, Administrator of the Estate of William D. Spencer, deceased, all of Platte County in State of Missouri, on the 26th day of July 1854."
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
11/17/1890