The claim was filed in 1871 for Hampton to be reimbursed for two horses that the Union troops confiscated for the war effort in 1863.
Some of the report is difficult to read so I am in the process of transcribing it. One section caught my eye as particularly interesting. It is in the testimony of Hampton's son in law George D. Kirkpatrick (1813-1901).
The called
State Convention is (unknown) The States going
out of The
Union, and after the (unknown) of Secession
was passed we
did not go with the (unknown) but stuck to our
Union
principles and continued to maintain them
during the
whole war. In These conditions claimant
always
expressed his determination to hold on (unknown) the Union.
That Slavery
and fire eaters of the South caused The war, and
That The
South had no grounds to justify this in trying to
Brake (sic)
up the The Union. I cannot remember all he Said
About it. He Never
(unknown) The (unknown) of Secession or Rebel cause. was
Violent in
his opposition to it. I knew the Sympathies and
opinions of
Claimant by what he Said to me about The
Union Cause,
and his opposition to the Rebel cause.
Testimony of George G. Kirkpatrick. 1874; George D.
Kirkpatrick (Crawford County, Arkansas), #12458; Allowed Case Files, Southern
Claims Commission, 1871-1880; Settled Accounts and Claims, Third Auditor; Record
of the Treasury Department Accounting Officers, Record Group 217; National
Archives, Washington, D.C.
