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In 1877, Jackson Williams testified before the Southern Claims Commission in an attempt to get compensation for property he said was taken from him by

Isaac Williams’ 1877 Southern Claims Commission petition for compensation was rejected. Williams had claimed $320 for a “good bay horse,” 5 cows, and a buggy

Augustus Williams presented his claim to the Southern Claims Commission in 1877 for $185 worth of property taken from him by U.S. troops when Sherman’s

Jack Walker “cried like a child” as the U.S. soldiers confiscated his property for Sherman’s Army in January 1865 in Liberty County, Georgia, according to

“When I first heard of the war I was on the Yankee side…I was on the side of course the side of the United States

The Southern Claims Commission was impressed by James Stacy’s detailed account of how he earned the property U.S. soldiers took from him during Sherman’s Army’s

Andrew Stacy, born into slavery in Liberty County, Georgia, around 1838, became free at the end of 1864, when Sherman’s Army arrived. In 1873 Andrew

Isaac Simpson, formerly enslaved in Liberty County, Georgia, had a reputation as an honest and industrious man. In 1878, the U.S. Southern Claims Commission special

Caesar Roberts’ Southern Claims Commission claim — for property taken from him by U.S. soldiers in December 1864 — is illustrative of the status of

In 1877, a formerly enslaved woman named Amy Roberts testified that she had owned property during the Civil War that was taken by Sherman’s Army

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