Additional Testimony for the Commissioners of Claims at Washington

Claim of William Cate of Bradley county, Tennessee no. 15.774 and 20702

Deposition of John H. Parker

Age 36 years. I am the teller of the Cleveland National Bank. I reside at Cleveland and am not related to the claimant and have no interest in his claim.

I have been acquainted with the claimant about 20 years; having lived in Cleveland all the time while claimant lived 2 1/2 miles from town. I was in the same Regiment with the claimant’s son Henry who was in the rebel army and I recollect that Henry was never stationed at Cleveland but we first went to Knoxville then to Cumberland Gap, then to Savannah Georgia, then back to Knoxville where we were disbanded. But his son, being an officer, the rebels held him and transferred him to the Paymasters department at Knoxville and from that point he was transferred to Montgomery and had charge of the transportation at that point and was not about the house till the surrender. And he could not have been much protection to his father – the claimant, who I knew to be a Union man and was opposed to his son going into the rebel service.

Question by claimant – Are you acquainted with the (?) standing of Capt. A.E. Blount and Leonard Carrouth. And would these papers be good in Bank?

Answer – My understanding is that they are both involved and this paper would not be very desirable.

signed,
John H. Parker
before, John W. Ramsey – Spec. Comm.

Links to each section of the transcribed file:

• Introduction & Part VIII — Conclusion
• Part I — William Cate’s Claimed Losses
• Part II — Notes from the Office of the Commissioners of Claims
• Part III — Depositions Taken in 1875 Regarding Claimant’s (Cate) Loyalty
• Part IV — Opinion Submitted by John B. Brownlow, U. S. Special Commission
• Part V — Additional Testimony for the Commissioners of Claims at Washington
  • Depositions:
    William Cate ~ Joseph H. Davis ~ Leonard Carrouth ~ Capt. A. E. Blount ~ John A. Steed ~ J. F. Larrison ~ Mrs. Sidney Henderson ~ Col. D. M. Nelson ~ Samuel Grigsby ~ Andrew J. Maples ~ John A. Hague ~ Herman Foster ~ Thomas L. Cate ~ James McGhee ~ Thomas Rains ~ D. B. Oneal ~ Thomas A. Cowan ~ C. L. Hardwick ~ Joseph Calloway ~ J. C. Steed ~ Joseph R. Taylor ~ William W. Wood(s) ~ James H. Brown ~ James S. Robertson ~ John H. Craigmiles ~ John H. Parker ~ John McReynolds ~ John W. Witcher
• Part VI — Summary of All Evidence for and Against Cate’s Loyalty
• Part VII — Opinion of Witnesses by John W. Ramsey
• Part VIII — William Cate’s Letter to Judge A. O. Alder

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