(MANUMISSION.) Office of Claims for Slaves Enlisted in U.S. Service. Partly-printed Document remunerating the executor of Amelia Covington's estate for the enlistment of her slave in the Union Army. 1 page, folio, filled out by hand, docketed on

(MANUMISSION.) Office of Claims for Slaves Enlisted in U.S. Service. Partly-printed Document remunerating the executor of Amelia Covington's estate for the enlistment of her slave in the Union Army. 1 page, folio, filled out by hand, docketed on verso; accompanied by 2 partly-printed documents filled out by hand; each 1 page, 4to; creased where folded; U.S. Revenue stamps. Latter 2 documents witness and acknowledge the military service and payment to the slave owner's assigns, with blindstamp of Board of Claims for Enlisted Slaves on each first leaf. Baltimore, Maryland, 1865 E800/1,200 UNCOMMON LEGAL INTRUMENT, remunerating the estate for the enlistment of Robert Covington, 9th Regiment, Company G, USCT, having joined 19 November 1863. (1864 printed date crossed out to read 1863.) This enlistment, as stated in the document was "a valid deed of manumission and release from service ." The owner was paid a fixed sum of one hundred dollars by the Government for this gesture. Though an Army matter, thus Federal, these documents could only have come from border states such as Maryland, and were probably generated by the State. We have never seen a similar document, nor find reference to them in standard works on the Civil War and use of colored troops..