{"value"=>"<p>Records of the Gulf's Special Relief Department, with O.C. Bullard in charge. Special relief activities centered around the Soldiers' Home in New Orleans, located in the former Planters Hotel on the corner of Julia and Magazine Streets. Adjacent buildings served as offices, housing for employees, and storage.</p> <p>The Special Relief Department, and especially O.C. Bullard, assisted soldiers in the Home with back pay and bounty claims, and papers corrections. Charles W. Seaton, in a nearby office, processed claims for pension and arrears of pay and bounty as a local agent for the USSC’s Army and Navy Claim Agency. His reports and records are found in the Army and Navy Claim Agency Archives; early records document some claims initially processed by the Special Relief Department.</p>"}