1 page, 4to, 8 3/8 x 10 3/4 in., partly printed document, with dated "Paid" stamp, toned, soiling, chipping at edes and along old folds. Undersigned, docketed in red to recto. 

As recorded here, and confirmed by HDS and other military records, Howard enlisted in July 1863 at Milliken's Bend, Louisiana as a private and was mustered into Company B of the 49th USCT. He was discharged on 22 March 1866 at Vicksburg, Mississippi. As noted on this form, Howard was originally from Shelby County, Kentucky, and was almost certainly formerly enslaved. The 1850 Slave Schedule indicates a population of 5,875 slaves and only 138 free Blacks. By the 1860 Slave Schedule, the number of freedmen had decreased to only 103.