Index to Pension application ledger
- Title
- Index to Pension application ledger
- Description
- Index to pension application ledger, 1887-1889. Names of claimants, affiants, and persons of importance are listed alphabetically with maiden names and aliases where known and cross references. Names of enslavers, if applicable, are also included. This index is part of the Frederick Douglass papers. He was a black lawyer, minister, and teacher from New Bern, N.C. During the 1880s and 1890s he handled the pension applications of many Blacks who served in the U.S. Army and U.S. Navy during the Civil War.
- Date
- 1887-1889
- Original Format
- military records
- Extent
- 21cm x 27cm
- Local Identifier
- 0323-b1-fa
- Subject(s)
- Douglass, Frederick C., active 1889-1897
- Military pensions--United States
- United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Claims
- United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Participation, African American
- United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Registers
- Spatial
- Location of Original
- East Carolina Manuscript Collection
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Military History: Civil War
- Location of Original
- Frederick C. Douglass Papers from the East Carolina Manuscript Collection
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My great-great grandparents, Harriett Boyd and Toney Boyd, are listed on page 55 of the index to Pensions. The full record is at the National Archives in Washington, DC.
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Thats so interesting Kenneth! I am a PhD student in the history department at UNCG. The Pension records are so important to recovering the experiences of individuals-- like Harriett Boyd and Toney Boyd-- during the U.S. Civil War and emancipation.