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Descendants of William and George Phelps
Standard Interrogatories For Each Witness
The following questions will be put to every person who gives testimony:
[viz:]
Julia Claggett, claimant
E. C. Weaver, Orderly Sgt, 121st New York Volunteers
Frank Foot, Lt. 121st New York Volunteers
Thomas Claggett, claimant's son
Columbia Claggett, daughter-in-law of claiment
- What is your name, your age, your residence and how long has it been such, and your occupation?
- If you are not the claimant, in what manner, if any, are you related to the claimant or interested in the success of the claim? The following questions will be put to every claimant, except claimants who were slaves at the beginning of the war:
- Where were you born? If not born in the United States, when and where were you naturalized? Produce your naturalization papers if you can
- Where were you residing and what was your business for six months before the outbreak of the rebellion, and where did you reside and what was your business from the beginning to the end of the war? And if you changed your residence or business, state how many times, and why such changes were made
- On which side were your sympathies during the war, and were they on the same side from beginning to end?
- Did you ever do anything or say anything against the Union cause; and if so, what did you do or say, and why?
- Were you at all times during the war willing and ready to do whatever you could in aid of the Union cause?
- Did you ever do anything for the Union cause, or its advocates or defenders? If so, state what you did, giving times, places, names of persons aided, and particulars Were the persons aided your relations?
- Had you any near relatives in the Union army or navy? If so, in what company and regiment, or on what vessel, when and where did each one enter service, and when and how did he leave service? If he was a son, produce his discharge paper, in order that its contents may be noted in this deposition, or state why it cannot be produced
- Were you in the service or employment of the United States government at any time during the war? If so, in what service, when, where, for how long, under what officers, and when and how did you leave such service or employment?
- Did you ever voluntarily contribute money, property, or services to the Union cause; and if so, when, where and to whom, and what did you contribute?
- Which side did you take while the insurgent States were seceding from the Union in 1860 and 1861, and what did you do to show on which side you stood?
- Did you adhere to the Union cause after the States had passed into rebellion, or did you go with your State?
- What were your feelings concerning the battle of Bull Run or Manassas, the capture of New Orleans, the fall of Vicksburg, and the final surrender of the Confederate forces?
- What favors, privileges, or protections were ever granted you in recognition of your loyalty during the war, and when and by whom granted?
- Have you ever taken the so-called "iron-clad oath" since the war, and when and on what occasions?
- Who were the leading and best known Unionists of your vicinity during the war? Are any of them called to testify to your loyalty; and if not, why not?
- Were you ever threatened with damage or injury to your person, family, or property on account of your Union sentiments, or were you actually molested or injured on account of your Union sentiments? If so, when, where, by whom, and in what particular way were you injured or threatened with injury?
- Were you ever arrested by any Confederate officer, soldier, sailor, or other person professing to act for the Confederate government, or for any State in rebellion? If so, when, where, by whom, for what cause; how long were you kept under arrest; how did you obtain your release; did you take any oath or give any bond to effect your release; and if so, what was the nature of the oath or the bond?
- Was any of your property taken by Confederate officers or soldiers, or any rebel authority? If so, what property, when, where, by whom, were you ever paid therefor, and did you ever present an account therefor to the Confederate government, or any rebel officer?
- Was any of your property ever confiscated by rebel authority, on the ground that you were an enemy to the rebel cause? If so, give all the particulars, and state if the property was subsequently released or compensation made therefor
- Did you ever do anything for the Confederate cause, or render any aid or comfort to the rebellion? If so, give the times, places, persons, and other particulars connected with each transaction
- What force, compulsion, or influence, was used to make you do anything against the Union cause? If any, give all the particulars demanded in the last question
- Were you in any service, business, or employment, for the Confederacy, or for any rebel authority? If so, give the same particulars as before required
- Were you in the civil, military, or naval service of the Confederacy, or any rebel State, in any capacity whatsoever? If so, state fully in respect to each occasion and service
- Did you ever take any oath to the so-called Confederate States while in any rebel service or employment?
- Did you ever have charge of any stores or other property, for the Confederacy; or did you ever sell or furnish any supplies to the so-called Confederate States, or any State in rebellion; or did you have any share or interest in contracts or manufactures in aid of the rebellion?
- Were you engaged in blockage running, or running through the lines, or interested in the risks or profits of such ventures?
- Were you in any way interested in any vessel navigating the waters of the Confederacy, or entering or leavy any Confederate port? If so, what vessel, when and where employed, in what business, and had any rebel authority any direct or indirect interest in vessel or cargo?
- Did you ever subscribe to any loan of the so-called Confederate States, or of any rebel State; or own Confederate bonds or securities, or the bonds or securities of any rebel State issued between 1861 and 1865? Did you sell, or agree to sell, cotton or produce to the confederate Government, or to any rebel State, or to any rebel officer or agent, and if so, did you receive or agree to receive Confederate or State bonds or securities in payment; and if so, to what amount, and for what kind and amount of property?
- Did you contribute to the raising, equipment or support of troops, or the building of gunboats in aid of the rebellion; or to military hospitals or invalids, or to relief funds or subscriptions for the families of persons serving against the United States?