Escape speculations

[RJNorton]

(06-18-2015 08:23 PM)SSlater Wrote:  Some years ago I found a request from Richard Garrett to the United Sates Government, asking for payment for all the stuff that was burned in the Bar, and the junk is itemized The Government agreed to pay him IF - he could prove that he had been loyal to the Union throughout the war. Of course he couldn't and would not take the oath. So, he didn't get paid. That request was in a file called the "Congressional Information System". My copy of the request in in the Surratt Library.

Many thanks to Blaine for sending these images along with this note:

"The Garretts were nothing if not persistent. See this letter from 1905."

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