MADISON COUNTY, TN - COURT - Hartwell Temple Petition, Southern Claims 
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(transcribed 11-3-99 by Lee Ann Garland)

13535 April 30, 1871 PETITION ------------------------------- Hartwell Temple 
Pinsons, Madison County Tennessee
For Horses, 1 Mule, & Bacon $900.00 
Gilbert Meyers Attorney Memphis, Tennessee 


May 9, 1871 PETITION Page 2 ----------------------------- To the Honorable the 
Commissioners of Clams under the act of Congress of March 3, 1871: Your 
petitioner (1) Hartwell Temple respectfully represent s that he is a citizen 
and resident of Madison County State of (2) Tennessee and resided there where 
this claim occurred that he is the original owner of the hereinafter mentioned 
claim; (3) And never sold, assigned, or transferred the same or any part of 
the same to any persons 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, via: (5) By Srgt. A. Lewellyan 49th Ill. 
Volunteer Sept. 1st, 1862 1) one Bay Horse values two hundred dollars $200.00 
By Col. Lee 7th Kansas About 10th June 1862 2) One pair Match Horses Value 
Four Hundred Dollar $400.00 By One mule value one Hundred and fifty dollars 
$150.00 By Fifteen Hundred pounds Bacon value ten cents per pound, re: $150.00 
Hundred and Fifty Dollars Total Amt. $900.00       

Page 3 that the prices charged are 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 from petitioners plantation near Pinson, 
Madison County State of Tennessee. The Horse charged in item one, was taken as 
per receipt attached to application. To take evidence. The horses charged in 
item 2 was taken when the Federal Army first came to Jackson, Tennessee and by 
that portion known as The 7th Kansas and commanded by Col. Lee. Said command 
pumed petitioners residences from Corinth to Jackson. and took said horses for 
his use, as the claim states. 

Page 4 that this claim (7) has never been hereafter presented to any 
department of the government. Your petitioner further say s that he hereby 
appoints Gilbert Meyers Memphis, Tennessee as his 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 United States, and 
process this claim to final issue, with full power of substitution, hereby 
ratifying and confirming all said attorneys, or either of them, shall lawfully 
do in virtue hereof, and hereby annulling and revoking all other powers of 
attorneys in the premises. Your petitioner further states that he is now and 
was at the time the several items of his said claim accrued, as stated therein 
a citizen of the United States; that he remained a loyal adherent to the cause 
and Government of the United States, during the war of 1861, and also loyal 
before and at the time of the taking or furnishing of the property for which 
this claim is made. Attest. Wm Finnis Hartwell Temple (8) Hartwell Temple 
being duly sworn, deposes and says that said petitioner named in the forgoing 
petition, and who signed the same; that the matters therein stated are true of 
deponent s own knowledge, except to those matters which are stated on 
information and belief, and, as to those matters, he believes them to be true. 
And deponent further says that he 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 he never voluntarily 
furnished any stores, supplies, or any other material aid to said Confederate 
Army or Navy, or to the Confederate Government, or to any officer, department, 
or adherent to the same, in support there of, and that he never voluntarily 
accepted or exercised the functions of any office whatsoever under, or yielded 
voluntary support to the said Confederate Government. 

				Hartwell Temple 

Subscribed and sworn to before me this 22nd day of December, 1871 
P.C. Mcowan 
clerk county court