The widow of Black Confederate Pilot, Moses Dallas, filed claim in 1872 for property taken from her when Savannah fell to Sherman's Army in December, 1864. In her statement, Harriett Dallas says, Moses had already purchased her freedom and that of the youngest of their five children, six months before his death. She stated they lived in a "rented home" with "five acres of land." True, Moses was a slave, probably not the " Black rebel-commando" or the "woebegone slave" some would make him out to be, but was undoubtedly a frugal businessman, putting his God-given abilities the Confederates paid him handsomely for to good use. Harriett speaks well in her claim, of the way he handled money.