Oh yes, I can relate to every word those people went through. If the lady Tempy was able to sell her property, she was a whole lot better off than mine.
Polly Guthrie Price out of White County, Arkansas who was born in the Spartanburg District of South Carolina had been rather well off for the times. She had a good life with Fielding Price whom she had married in 1837 as well as a comfortable life as a child. Polly could not raise the money for taxes because after the war ended because among other things they could not raise money for salt. So the home place was lost for taxes.
Polly Price got a one time payment in 1897 as a widow's pension. I doubt seriously if her husband was ever paid a penny.
Fielding Price died in the Yankee Prison on Feb. 1, 1865. When he died, a Union soldier went to the house and told his widow, if she could give him so much money, she could buy him out of the prison. So she sold everything she could, and gave the money to the man. Fielding was already dead from smallpox. So she got beat out of every thing she had.
Her last child, a son, was born about six weeks after his daddy died. He was named Pleas in honor of the son-in-law they believed dead. The son-in-law, Pleasant Harrison Loyd of the 36th Arkansas walked home from Texas but died within the year.
That is just one of my stories.
I do understand and we need to pay honor to all of those men who fell in service for a cause they believed in.
Linda T. Acrey