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Civil War Slave Compensation Claims In Compiled Military Service Records of U.S. Colored Troops (USCT)
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During the Civil War, two acts of Congress allowed loyal slave owners whose slaves enlisted or were drafted into the U.S. military to file a claim against the Federal government for loss of the slave’s services. for more information...

Since each slave compensation claim was based on the service of a specific soldier, a copy of the claim’s paperwork was placed in that soldier’s compiled military service record. The regiments of U.S. Colored Troops that have a large number of these claims are the regiments formed in the border-states (Delaware, Kentucky, Maryland, and Missouri) or in neighboring states.

Index to Slave Compensation Claims found in the
Compiled Service Records of U.S. Colored Troops
 
18th Regiment Infantry, U.S. Colored Troops
Names of Soldiers/Former Slaves:
A–D E–H,   I–P R–Z
or
Names of Soldiers/Former Slaves PDF 198k New
Name of Former Slave Owners:
A–D E–HeHi–P R–Z
or
Names of Slave Owners PDF 205k New

Source: National Archives Microfilm Publication M1822, Compiled Military Service Records of Volunteer Union Soldiers Who Served With the United States Colored Troops: Infantry Organizations, 14th through 19th, rolls 65-83.

 
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