This document is a quartermaster claim by Joseph W. Gibson for the acquisition by Col. Horatio G. Gibson (Union) of one horse for the 2nd Ohio Heavy Artillery Battery. The claim is dated the third of June 1868 in McMinn County, and lists one horse valued at $145.00. The document repeatedly requests the affirmation of the signer’s loyalty to the United States Government and sworn testimony of two witnesses that the signer “has, at all times, been an unconditional Union man, (or woman,).”