Submitted by Ray
Ezell
Petition No. 4404 July 22/1871
Elizabeth Jacobs
Eve Mills, Loudon Co. Tenn.
Mules, Corn, Horse, & C....
$443.75
PETITION.
To the Honorable the Commissioners of Claims under the Act of Congress
of March 3, 1871:
Your petitioner 1) Elizabeth Jacobs respectfully represent that
She is a citizen and resident of Eve Mills Loudon County State of
2) Tennessee. That she is the original owner of the hereinafter
mentioned claim; 3)...that there was 4) taken from the petitioner
for the use of the army of the United states, for which no payment
has been made, or compensation received in any manner or from any
source for any part thereof, the following described supplies, viz.:
5) taken about the 10th day of December 1863
1. one fine mule...$150.00
2. 2 pairs of hammes...$20.00
3. 150 lbs. Bacon at 12 1/2 cents...$15.75
4. 1000 bushels of corn...$100.00
5. one mare 2 years old...$135.00
that the prices charged are the fair market value for the supplies
at the time and place last mentioned, as your petitioner is informed
and believe; that said supplies were 6) taken by Col. Long...No.
1 &2 his regiment not recollected ...on his return from Knoxville
Tenn, the mule was taken and hammes, for artillery use by order
of Col. Long... No. 3, 4, &5 were taken by the Command of General
McCook who was then in command of cavalry when on his return from
Knoxville where he had been to the relief of Genl. Burnside, they
camped near my place one night as I then lived in Monroe County
near the Little Tennessee River at that time there was quite an
army passing in the direction of Chattanooga and was getting supplies
off of the citizens a receipt was promised If I would go to the
camps, but did not go to get it.
Genl. Burnside was in command of the district at that time, In addition
to my ...the taking of the supplies of Mary Gaston, and Catherine
Cook, and Robert Jacobs, whose post office is Eve Mills Loudon County,
Tenn. For proof of my loyalty V. Gaston and Edmond Cook, post office
Eve Mills, Tenn.
Mary Gaston, Catherine Cook, and daughters & Robert Jacobs is
my son. No. 6, was taken by the command of Genl. McCook at the same
time and under the same circumstances that No. 3, 4, &5 was
taken.
That this claim 7) was filed before the Commission of Tennessee
at Knoxville, there ...was any action taken.
Your petitioner further say that she hereby appoints N.P. Chipman,
A.A. Hosmer and C.D. Gilmore doing business under the name of Chipman,
Hosmer, and Co. of the City of Washington D.C. as her true and lawful
attorneys to appear before the Claims Commission appointed under
the act of Congress of March 3, 1871 , or any Court, Department,
or Bureau of the Government of the unites States, and prosecute
this claim to the final issue, with full power of substitution,
herby ratifying and conforming all said attorneys or either of them
shall lawfully do in virtue hereof, and herby annulling and revoking
all other powers of attorney in the premises.
Your petitioner further over that she is citizen who remained loyal
adherent to the cause and the Government of the United States during
the war, and were so loyal before and at the time of the taking
or furnishing of the property for which claim is made.
Elizabeth X Jacobs
8) I Elizabeth Jacobs having duly sworn...and says that she is the
petitioner named in the foregoing petition and she signed the same
that the matters therein stated are true to..., our knowledge, and
the knowledge of the witnesses heretofore stated in the petition
and ...further says, that she did not voluntarily serve in the Confederate
Army, or Navy either as an officer, soldier, or sailor, or in any
other capacity, at any time during the late rebellion; that she
never voluntarily furnished any stores supplies or other material
aid to said Confederate army or navy or to the Confederate Government,
or to any officer department or adherent of the Same in support
thereof, and that she never voluntarily accepted or exercised the
functions of any office whatsoever under or yielded voluntary support
to the Said Confederate Government.
Elizabeth X Jacobs
Subscribed and sworn to before me this 21 day of May, 1871
(seal)
J.R. Robinson, U.S. Commissioner
Circuit Court for the Dist of East Tennessee
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