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house and continued to do so when the Military permitted it until in April or May last the Treasury agent in Natchez Compelled her tenant one Patterson to pay rent to him & Claimed the property as abandoned. – It was never “abandoned” & was always occupied by Mrs. Martins tenants except when occasionally the Military authorities seized it & then left it – It has been wantonly injured & laid waste.  All fencing burned or moved away. locks, bolts &c carried off stables & outbuildings torn down, Shade & fruit trees destroyed. If she had not been driven from the place she would have occupied it herself.

She has never been disloyal – was always opposed to the war, and endeavored to persuade her husband to take no part in the Contest & endeavored to persuade him frequently to abandon the Army. She is not excepted by any Clause of the Amnesty Proclamation of May 29th 1865 - She has not ten thousand dollars worth of property, and almost all of her own as well as her husbands’ property has been wholly lost during the war.

The furniture taken is believed to have been in great part shipped-off. She has found in possession of Capt Pence A Q M. at Natchez, a few articles for which he has receipted to the Treasury agent here A list marked A. shows the furniture taken from her which was his separate property:  A list marked B. shows the articles of furniture in Capt Pence's possession-A properly certified copy of