E. D. Boyd recounts that he was captured in 1862 in Kentucky "by the federal force" and that he spent two years in various prisons. When he returned to Virginia, he learned that Col. John Clarkson had conducted "a raid on the house of ... James S. Layne," his father-in-law. He further represents that the said Clarkson confiscated seven slaves belonging to the eighty-three-year-old Layne and three slaves belonging to Mrs. Hatcher, a widow. Boyd discloses that Layne "claimed to be a union man to save his property" although "all his sympathies are with the Confederacy." Boyd, on behalf of his father-in-law and Mrs. Hatcher, prays "that the property aforesaid be restored to the owners."
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Repository: Library of Virginia, Richmond, Virginia
