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Show for it. the District of Columbia courts have now directed that the I $1,200 be put into the treasury. It will come handy. , j U. S. GETS $1,200 FROM CIVIL WAR. In 1863 the Union forces in the Tennessee Rivor valley captured I twenty-three mules which belonged to some families who sympathized with the Confederacy, and these animals were confiscated. They were finally sold at Cincinnati for $1,200. The money has been held ever since 47. years by the government. gov-ernment. It might have gone as prize-money to the men on the gun-, gun-, boats who helped make the capture, but as they never put in a claim |