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Research performed by Stacy Cole (updated as of 8/7/2025) On July 4, 1889, when Georgia’s new Capitol Building was dedicated, there was just one African

Enslaved People Held by John Ashmore (1767-1849)Liberty County, GeorgiaCreated: 2/7/2019 by Stacy Ashmore Cole This is the only information provided for the African American people

The following study was produced during a free 14-day study group sponsored by Diana Elder and Nicole Dyer of The Family Locket, using their “Research

William Wilson filed his Southern Claims Commission petition in 1877, claiming $59 for two hogs, corn, rice, and 40 head of poultry taken from him

Jack Wilson submitted his Southern Claims Commission petition in 1873, asking for $463.50 for 3 horses, 4 cows, 2 hogs, poultry, corn, and potatoes taken

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