The Southern Claims Commission Files show that Green L Cagle of Franklin Co.AR, filed a claim with them for property, food supplies and animals the Union Army took from him during the Civil War. One could file a claim with the Southern Claims Commission for these goods taken which might uncover interesting facts. I have purchased several of these claims files for people in Newton County,AR and they are filled with unusual things. Like damages done, size of the farms, the amount of property seized. Even sometimes the description of the area during the Civil War. One notation indicated the Confederate Soldiers did not bother one man who had a leg missing. This accounts for the man's son living with his father and mother way up into his 30's. Claims were filed with the Southern Commission Claims for the following Newton County,Arkansas men: CASEY,Anthony DAVIS, Isham J DIAL,Samuel HOUSTON,William JONES, Simon REYNOLDS, A W THOMPSON, James S Have purchased Simon Jones and Oliver Grangeene's Southern Commission Claims and they are very interesting. Will type them up and place them on the Newton County, Arkansas Web Site later. I belonged to the Professional Genealogists of Arkansas,Inc. and received their bulletins and one issue has the entire list of claims from Arkansas Counties. Desmond Walls Allen used to publish this Newsletter, but not any more. The Newsletters are full of good sources of Arkansas information. Just found my July 1991 issue that I had searched all over my house for. Just happened to run across it filed someplace where it was not supposed to be. Since I have this issue that lists all the names from different Arkansas Counties who applied for claims with the Southern Claims Commission, I can look up any names you want me to. Once you have established the name of the claimant ,and the Arkansas county,you write to: General Reference Branch National Archives, Washington DC 20408 and request a copy of the claim file, specifying Southern Claims Commission; claimants name and the county and state listed in the index. The case number IS NOT required to order the file. Send NO MONEY with the request. The National Archives has a standard reply form letter for requests for Southern Claims Commission claim files. The National Archives will return an order for reproduction services, enclosing the listing of the files and the number of pages and cost for each. This form may be returned to the NA Trust Fund Board in Atlanta with payment. The requester may indicate payment for only some of the files listed on the form if copies of all are not desired. In 1980 Dr. Gary B Mills of Tuscaloosa,Alabama published "Civil War Claims in the South, An Index of Civil War Damage Claims Filed Before the Southern Claims Commission, 1871-1880", a thorough index of the claims. Check at your public library. The Public Libary here where I live happens to have a copy. The book is out of print. Check with your local LDS Family History Center Library also. Some genealogical societies may have undertaken a book of their own county, listing these claims. Johnson County,Arkansas may be just such a county. Write me and I will look up names that are listed for Arkansas Counties. Once you have the name and the county, you can write for the claim. Anyone need a lookup? Evelyn Flood Rkinfolks@aol.com