Claim of William Cate of Bradley county, Tennessee no. 15.774 and 20702<\/p>\n
Deposition of John H. Craigmiles Age 48 years. I am a banker residing at Cleveland Tennessee. I am not related to the claimant and have no interest in his claim. I have known the claimant for 18 years and was acquainted with his reputation for loyalty.<\/p>\n And it was that he was always loyal to the cause of the United States. I never heard his loyalty doubted till the last few weeks, since Colonel Brownlow was here.<\/p>\n Question by the claimant<\/i> – Were you the owner of the Cleveland mills? Did you grind any sick wheat for the Confederates? Did you grind any for the federals?<\/p>\n Answer<\/i> – I was the owner of the mills. I had some damaged wheat that had been damaged in the shack and had the effect of sick wheat. I had it in the mill and I was ordered to grind it by General Forest<\/b>. I told him it was sick and would not do to eat. But Forest ordered me to grind it or he would take charge of the mill and have it ground.<\/p>\n I had it ground. It made them sick. I was then arrested by General Dibbrel<\/b> with some of my millers but General Forest came and admitted that he had ordered it ground and had us discharged.<\/p>\n The Federals never had any grinding done at the Cleveland mills. And I never head any complaint of sick wheat from the federals.<\/p>\n I could not grind after the army of Sherman passed here for they cut up my boults and elevators so I could not grind till I replaced them; which I did not do till the war was over.<\/p>\n signed, <\/p>\n The information in these articles was formerly linked from Bradley County TNGenWeb to a site owned by Danny Roy Williams at Geocities. The site was last available in 2009. It is available through the Internet Archive here<\/a>. No copyright infringement is intended.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" 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. Craigmiles Age 48 years. I am a banker residing at Cleveland Tennessee. I am not …<\/span> Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[27,5,16,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-514","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civil-war-history","category-communities","category-families-individuals","category-military-records"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/bradley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/514","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/bradley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/bradley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/bradley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/bradley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=514"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/bradley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/514\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":541,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/bradley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/514\/revisions\/541"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/bradley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=514"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/bradley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=514"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/bradley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=514"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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\nJ.H. Cragimiles<\/b>
\nbefore, John W. Ramsey – Spec. Comm. <\/p>\n
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\nWilliam Cate<\/a> ~ Joseph H. Davis<\/a> ~ Leonard Carrouth<\/a> ~ Capt. A. E. Blount<\/a> ~ John A. Steed<\/a> ~ J. F. Larrison<\/a> ~ Mrs. Sidney Henderson<\/a> ~ Col. D. M. Nelson<\/a> ~ Samuel Grigsby<\/a> ~ Andrew J. Maples<\/a> ~ John A. Hague<\/a> ~ Herman Foster<\/a> ~ Thomas L. Cate<\/a> ~ James McGhee<\/a> ~ Thomas Rains<\/a> ~ D. B. Oneal<\/a> ~ Thomas A. Cowan<\/a> ~ C. L. Hardwick<\/a> ~ Joseph Calloway<\/a> ~ J. C. Steed<\/a> ~ Joseph R. Taylor<\/a> ~ William W. Wood(s)<\/a> ~ James H. Brown<\/a> ~ James S. Robertson<\/a> ~ John H. Craigmiles<\/a> ~ John H. Parker<\/a> ~ John McReynolds<\/a> ~ John W. Witcher<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n
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