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Mingo Quarterman’s 1877 Southern Claims Commission petition was denied, but his testimony revealed details about this formerly enslaved man’s life in Liberty County, Georgia. He

George Powell, a 37-year-old formerly enslaved man who had lived in Liberty County, Georgia, all his life, testified to representatives of the Southern Claims Commission

Samuel Osgood’s claim for compensation for property taken from him by Sherman’s Army in December 1864 probably would have been denied, because he only presented

George McConnell, formerly enslaved by Robert C. Hines, was awarded $120 from the U.S. Southern Claims Commission in 1879 in compensation for property confiscated from

Samuel Maxwell, who was held enslaved on George W. Walthour’s Westfield plantation in Liberty County, Georgia at the end of the Civil War, was interviewed

Primus LeConte, a formerly enslaved 61-year-old man, testified in 1873 that U.S. soldiers took property from him when Sherman’s Army raided Liberty County, Georgia, in

In 1878, Paul LeConte, a formerly enslaved man, submitted a Southern Claims Commission petition for $160.75 in compensation for rice, honey, hogs, corn, potatoes, fowl,

William Law’s 1877 Southern Claims Commission petition was denied for insufficient proof, which the Commission judged to be the fault of Special Commissioner Henry Way,

“At the beginning of the rebellion I sympathized with the Yankee side I felt glad and long[ed] to see the day come and when they

During the Civil War, Joel Hodges of Liberty County slept with a gun beside his bed…not out of fear of the U.S. Army but because

Prime Hargrave, a 75-year-old formerly enslaved man who said he had lived in Liberty County, Georgia all his life, testified to the Southern Claims Commission

Mack Golding was born on Thomas Mallard’s plantation as a slave, and became free when the Union Army passed through Liberty County on foraging raids

On a cold morning in December 1864, a group of enslaved African Americans were sitting down to a wedding feast in the yard at Joseph

Andrew Girardeau’s claim for compensation for property taken by U.S. soldiers when they liberated Liberty County, Georgia’s enslaved population while foraging for Sherman’s Army in

William (“Billy”) Gilmore was about 43 at the end of 1864 when the soldiers of Sherman’s Army arrived in Liberty County, Georgia, where he was