Summary Report, 1879, Disallowed Claim of Robert Sturdivant

Summary Report, 1879, Disallowed Claim of Robert Sturdivant

Remarks by the Commissioner of Southern Claims in response to the disallowed claim of Robert Sturdivant. This claim was disallowed because the claimant was unable to prove his loyalty to the Union.

Commissioner of Southern Claims

Robert Sturdivant (Chatham Co., North Carolina) claim, no. 19128. Barred and Disallowed Case Files, Southern Claims Commission, 1871-1880. Records of the House of Representatives, Record Group 233. National Archives and Records Administration, Washington, D.C.

King, Stefanie

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Chatham County, NC

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"The claimant says his sympathies were for the Union;- but after the war began "of course I could not wish for the defeat of our troops." This in reply to 214.

He was in the Home Guard and hunted deserters- was the first to go in & the last to go out.- He was Justice of the Peace during the war and took the Oath to the Confederacy. Loyalty not proved & claim disallowed. The clmt. in 19,129 is the same as this clmt..-"