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74 BOUNTIES TO COLORED SOLDIERS. No. 7.——PALDO BAILEY, Company K One hundred and tenth United States infantry. I put in my claim with Captain Beckert, December 19, 1866. Captain Beckert was my captain. Captain B. came to Squire Baugh's office about one year thereafter, and loaned me $50. I signed a note for the money; there was another low, chunky, black-whiskered man present; he did not tell me what he would charge me for the money. Said there was $300 coming to me beside my commutation money, in all $350. He said I would have to pay him back when I got my money; that he just lent it to me out of his pocket to accommodate me. Signed only one paper. Thomas Upshaw, Company K One hundred and tenth colored troops, was present. Last year I received from Captain Beckert, through my brother, Doc. Bailey, $40 and my discharge. I was a prisoner eight months. I never have received any further sum of money from any person whomsoever. Discharge shows an allowance per certificate 366693, December 10, 1867, $100 bounty, $100 additional bounty, $3 20 difference of pay; in all $203 20. Commutation of rations settled. Squire Baugh was not at home at the time I received this loan. PALDO BAILEY. his + mark. Sworn and subscribed to at Pulaski, Tennessee, January 10, 1870, in the presence of—— J. A. SLADEN, Brevet Captain United States Army, Recorder. ATHENS, ALA., December 19, 1866. This day received the discharge papers of Paldo Bailey, for the purpose of prosecuting his claims for bounty, &c., due him by the United States government, through Chipman, Hosmer & Co., in Washington, D. C. BECKERT & ATKIN. No. S.——CHARLES ASHWOOD, Company A One hundred and tenth United States colored troops, being first duly sworn, deposes and says: I put in my claim with Colonel Rugg, at Huntsville in 1866; got no receipt. In 1867 Colonel Rugg lent me $15. Shortly after I received my bounty from Colonel Rugg. At the time I borrowed the money I signed one paper. When I was paid I went to Colonel Rugg, who went to the bureau office, got the money, brought it to his own office, and paid me $160. Can count money. (Tested.) The $160 includes the $15 loaned me. I went to the bureau office, but did not say anything to the officer; Colonel Rugg did all the talking. The discharge shows certificate 346678, November 17, 1867, $100 bounty; $100 additional bounty; $48 difference of pay; in all $248. Colonel Rugg said $160 was all that was coming. I knew more than $160 was coming to me, for my discharge had been previously returned to me by Colonel Rugg. He said I must be careful and not tell any one how much he paid me. CHARLES ASHWOOD. his + mark. Sworn and subscribed to at Pulaski, Tennessee, January 10, 1870, in the presence of—— J. A. SLADEN, Brevet Captain United States Army, Recorder. 75 BOUNTIES TO COLORED SOLDIERS. No. 9.——Thomas Upshur, Company K One hundred and tenth regiment, being sword, deposes and says: That he put in his discharge with Captain Beckert the 19th day of December, 1866; that Captain Beckert paid him $25, two years ago Christmas, at Squire Baugh's before whom he signed some papers; that the next spring he got a check from the bureau agent at Pulaski, Mr. Simpson, for $135 70, which he carried to Dr. Cloon, who took it up and paid him $120 70. He (Cloon) told him he (Upshur) owed to the government the amount which he (Cloon) took out; that last summer he got a check from Dr. Cloon for $37 20, which Mr. Fisher took up and paid him $37. That he gave Captain Beckert his note, or supposed it to be a note, for $25; that nothing was said as to what they would charge him for it. When he first gave his discharge to Captain Beckert he told him he would get $100 or $150. The last check of $37 20, which Cloon gave him, was for commutation of rations, which Cloon had collected; Captain Beckert put in the claim for commutation. This is all he has ever received on his claims. Never signed any papers in Mr. Cloon's office until he gave him the check. He saw Mr. Cloon some two weeks before he got the check for commutation, and Cloon said he would collect it. He told me to come in two weeks. In two weeks he went and was told to come in the afternoon. He went in the afternoon, and was paid; his discharge is at home. He enlisted the 15th of December, 1863, and was mustered out the 6th day of February, 1866, the same as Jerry Jenkins of his company and regiment. THOMAS UPSHUR. his + mark. Sworn and subscribed to at Pulaski, Tennessee, January 10, 1870, in the presence of- J. A. SLADEN, Brevet Captain United States Army, Recorder. No. 10.——JOHN YOUNG, Company F One hundred and eleventh United States colored troops, being first duly sworn, deposes and says: I filed my claim with Captain Judd some three years ago, and was paid by Major Wilson about last month. I have only received $100, and think I ought to have received more. I took my discharge immediately to Mr. Cloon, who gave me a receipt for it, and told me that I would have $200 more. At the time I received my money in the back room Fisher was standing close by me, and told me to come into the front room. When we had come into the front room Fisher showed me a note for $100, which I had given to Adam Garrett, about four months before, and demanded that I should pay the full amount of the note. This I would not do, but finally paid him $55, and promised to pay the balance when I got the rest of my bounty. JOHN YOUNG. his + mark. Sworn and subscribed to this the 10th January, 1870, in the presence of—— J. A. SLADEN. Brevet Captain United States Army, Recorder. No. 11.——GREEN TURNER, Company A First United States colored heavy artillery, being first duly sworn, deposes and says: I put in my claim with M. M. Cloon, at Pulaski; received my bounty, $302, last June, from Major Wilson, in Jones & Son's back office. He paid me money. He
