Additional Testimony for the Commissioners of Claims at Washington

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

Deposition of Samuel Grigsby

Aged 80 years. I have been a farmer but at present allowed to do but little except lending a little money and collecting the interest. I am not related to the claimant and have no interest in his claim.

I have known the claimant about 40 years – and during the war I lived at Cleveland and the claimant lived 2 1/2 miles from Cleveland. And during the war I was on intimate terms with him and got my firewood from his land and often talked to him about the war and I always found him a staunch and consistent Union man.

I was acquainted with Leonard Carrouth and he consulted me about purchasing the tract of land near the claimant and borrowed about five hundred and seventy-five dollars from me to make the first payment for said tract of land.

I know that Mrs. Shaot (Shoat?) lived in the house on the place where she lived till the war closed in 1865 and Mr. Leonard Carrouth did not move to said land, nor get possession of it till she moved out which was sometime in 1865.

I often talked with Leonard Carrouth about the claimant and I know that Leonard Carrouth always regarded the claimant as a Union man from the time he came here till I sued Carrouth and collected my money out of him last summer or fall.

When I sued him he told me that the claimant would go his security for the money. I saw the claimant and he refused to go security or to stay the judgement. This seemed to disturb Carrouth and he gave me a deed of trust on the land to secure (me?).

signed,
Samuel Grigsby
before, John W. Ramsey – Special Commissioner

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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