Dear list,
While doing some online research i found a couple of Cagle records.
They may have been posted before not really sure.
Leonard Cagle pvt. Second Regiment Arkansas Cavalry.
Enlistment date Sept.07, 1863. Muster Oct. 09, 1863.
Died in General Hospital Ft. Smith,AR. Feb. 10, 1865
Doses anyone have family info. on his family?
Also found a record for Charles Hughes Cagle. He bid on a contract to
deliver mail three times a week between Kosciusko to Louisville, MS.
Contract dated Mar. 08, 1876 paid $949.00 per year.
Never heard of this little place so i looked it up. It is located in
Attala County, MS.
Also i there is a listing for land claims :
Abstract, containing a list of names of actual settlers on land in that
part of Louisiana, which lies east of the Mississippi river and island of
New Orleans, and west of Pearl River, who have no claims therto, derived
from the French, British, or Spanish governments.
Coonrod & Leonard Cagle Nov. 1810.
Roger Cagle July 1810.
So here we have productive Cagle's, acquiring land seven years after the purchase.
It has been quite some time, since i studied history. in school.
So here is data on the Louisiana Purchase, from Wikipedia.
By the way Leonard Cagle,is my 4th. great grandfather. So Leonard, Conrad, and Roger
Cagle are 4th.great Uncles. By the way i have Leonard & Susannah Richardson Cagle, as
having 15 children. This couldn't possibly be correct.
Best Regards,
Earl D. Cagle
The Louisiana Purchase (French: Vente de la Louisiane "Sale of Louisiana") was
the acquisition of the Louisiana territory (828,000 square miles = 2.14 million km²) by
the United States from France in 1803. The U.S. paid fifty million francs ($11,250,000
USD) and a cancellation of debts worth eighteen million francs ($3,750,000 USD) for a
total of sixty-eight million francs ($15,000,000 USD, or around a quarter of a billion in
2016 dollars). The Louisiana territory included land from fifteen present U.S. states and
two Canadian provinces. The territory contained land that forms Arkansas, Missouri, Iowa,
Oklahoma, Kansas, and Nebraska; the portion of Minnesota west of the Mississippi River; a
large portion of North Dakota; a large portion of South Dakota; the northeastern section
of New Mexico; the northern portion of Texas; the area of Montana, Wyoming, and Colorado
east of the Continental Divide; Louisiana west of the Mississippi River (plus New
Orleans); and small portions of land within the present Canadian provinces of Alberta and
Saskatchewan. Its non-native population was around 60,000 inhabitants, of whom half were
African slaves.[1]
The Kingdom of France controlled the Louisiana territory from 1699 until it was ceded to
Spain in 1762. Napoleon in 1800, hoping to re-establish an empire in North America,
regained ownership of Louisiana. However, France's failure to put down the revolt in
Saint-Domingue, coupled with the prospect of renewed warfare with the United Kingdom,
prompted Napoleon to sell Louisiana to the United States. The Americans originally sought
to purchase only the port city of New Orleans and its adjacent coastal lands, but quickly
accepted the bargain. The Louisiana Purchase occurred during the term of the third
President of the United States, Thomas Jefferson. Before the purchase was finalized, the
decision faced Federalist Party opposition; they argued that it was unconstitutional to
acquire any territory. Jefferson agreed that the U.S. Constitution did not contain
explicit provisions for acquiring territory, but he asserted that his constitutional power
to negotiate treaties was sufficient.