- Collection:
- African American History
- Title:
- Civil War pension application ledger, 1891
- Date of Original:
- 1891
- Subject:
- African American lawyers--North Carolina--New Bern
Military pensions--United States--Civil War, 1861-1865
United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Claims
United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Participation, African American - People:
- Douglass, Frederick C., active 1889-1897
- Location:
- United States, North Carolina, 35.50069, -80.00032
- Medium:
- financial records
- Type:
- Text
- Format:
- application/pdf
- Description:
- Civil war pension application ledger indexed with date, name of claimant, and page number. The ledger contains the claims of African American soldiers requesting compensation for wounds and injuries received or diseases contracted while serving in the Union forces during the Civil War. Most applicants had lived in Craven and surrounding counties prior to the Civil War and fled to Union-occupied New Bern after it fell to Union forces in 1862. They subsequently enlisted in the U.S. Army or Navy and served in a variety of locations during the remainder of the war. Many sections of index only partially legible. Check for multiple entries. This ledger is part of the Frederick C. Douglass papers. Douglass was a black lawyer, minister, and teacher, in New Bern, N.C., who handled pension applications for African Americans who served in the Union Army and Navy during the Civil War.
- Metadata URL:
- https://digital.lib.ecu.edu/56408
- Language:
- eng
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- Contributing Institution:
- J.Y. Joyner Library
- Rights:
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