Description
Louis / Lewis Norman: 79th U. S. C. T. Infantry, Company H, Corporal. Additional service: 1st Kansas Colored Infantry, Company H.
✦ Mother Pension 12/19/1875: #223,146, no Certificate indicated
✦ Widow Pension 05/18/1878: #237,337, Certificate #185,845
(Researcher's note: Louis Norman enlisted at Fort Scott, Kansas on March 13, 1863, and was mustered as a Private into the 79th USCT Infantry, Company H.
On November 3, 1866, Clinton Cockrill of Platte County, Missouri, signed claim for compensation #159 for enlisted slave Louis Norman and swore an oath of allegiance before Platte County Circuit Court Clerk George W. Belt.
Clinton Cockrill claimed he had acquired title to Louis by “…purchase from Larkin Fleshman of Platte County in the State of Missouri on the 7th day of August 1848.” Pickett Callahan and James M. Mulkey of Platte County swore under oath that Cockrill had owned Louis for “5 years."
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
12/19/1875