Description
Alfred Kerchibald: 79th U. S. C. T. Infantry, Company D, Private. Additional service: 1st Kansas Colored Infantry, Company D.
✦ Invalid Pension: #739,543, no Certificate indicated
(Researcher's note: Alfred Kerchibald enlisted at Fort Scott, Kansas, on August 8, 1862, and was mustered as a Private into the 79th USCT Infantry, Company D.
On November 27, 1866, Thomas B. White of Buchanan County, Missouri, signed claim for compensation #15 for enlisted slave Alfred Kerchibald and swore an oath of allegiance before Rushville, Rush Township Notary Public Elijah Watson, Justice of the Peace. White claimed he had acquired title to Alfred because “…was inherited by the wife of said Thomas B. White."
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
11/18/1888