The yankees stole my Great-Great Grandmother`s horse and denied her compensation. The Southern Claims Commission said it was because her brothers were Confederates.
There are some in the family today who are still want the horse back............not fourty acres and a mule.....a horse.
There's a very good chance that the horse is dead by now. Your family is aware of that?
Thank you, I love that story!
It's true, the claims commissions were far more "hard *ssed" than we would wish today.
Basically, they required for you to be compensated for war losses, that your family had to have served the Union cause during the war, for example by supplying troops to Union units.
So far more applied for compensation than received it.