Additional Testimony for the Commissioners of Claims at Washington Claim of William Cate of Bradley county, Tennessee no. 15.774 and 20702 Deposition of Joseph H. Davis who being duly sworn deposes and says my age 66 years, residence Cleveland Tennessee. … Continue reading →
Exhibit “A” to Deposition of William Cate To Support Claim to Southern Claims Commission Claim of William Cate of Bradley county, Tennessee no. 15.774 and 20702 Cleveland, (August?) 25, 1865 We the undersigned citizens of the 6th district do agree … Continue reading →
Additional Testimony for the Commissioners of Claims at Washington Claim of William Cate of Bradley county, Tennessee no. 15.774 and 20702 Claimant who being duly sworn disposes and says my name is William Cate. I am the claimant and have … Continue reading →
Additional Testimony for the Commissioners of Claims at Washington Claim of William Cate of Bradley county, Tennessee no. 15.774 and 20702 It is hereby certified that on different days from the 1st of August to the 14th of August 1875 … Continue reading →
Opinion submitted by John B. Brownlow, U.S. Special Commission May 12, 1875 (1st page missing)…out and was not, perhaps, so well acquainted with his course of conduct as claimant’s nearest neighbors. Of these I refer to the depositions of Leonard … Continue reading →
A.E. Blount Deposition. During three years of the war while I was in the Union army I saw nothing of the claimant. I returned to Cleveland in 1864. I do not personally know of his doing a disloyal act but … Continue reading →
Notes from the Office of the Commissioners of Claims with Instructions on how to Deal With Bradley County Claims Note #1 ___ Washington, D.C., April 6, 1875 No. 15774 – $1,708.10 William Cate near Cleaveland Bradley Co. Tenn. Farm of … Continue reading →
William Cate’s Claimed Losses Item 1 – 2825 lbs bacon: Claimant saw it taken from smoke-house in Dec. 1863, by Sherman’s army; they were camped nearby. claimant had 800 lbs of old bacon besides bacon from 16 hogs weighing 200 … Continue reading →
by Danny Williams Introduction If you love Civil war history or finding information on your ancestors in Bradley County, Tennessee, you’ll enjoy these transcribed files on William Cate’s claim against the Union taken in the years 1872-1876. I have deciphered … Continue reading →
[Transcriber and contributor unidentified. Note paragraph breaks were inserted in long passages to make text more-readable.] From Goodspeed’s History of Tennessee from the Earliest Time to the Present; Together with an Historical and a Biographical Sketches of from Twenty-Five to … Continue reading →
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