The house at Mall Bank Plantation stood near this juncture of Eubank Creek and Old Canton Road three miles north of the City of Jackson on a 400-acre tract, which was originally part of the 5,000-acre plantation in Hinds County owned from 1823 by the Garland family of Virginia.  The house stood at the farthest end of a tree-lined mall located on Old Canton Road near the present Hawthorne and Tyrone Drives.
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                                              Drawings by Winslow Homer.
                                                           

               Richard Newman Eubank, Sr.  1792 - 1871
         Mary Camden Ware 1803 - 1879, wife of Richard;
       Lived at "Mall Bank," their plantation at Jackson, Mississippi, and after
    the Civil War lived at "Moss Side" Fannin, Rankin County, Mississippi

                                   by Iris Teta Eubank Wagner

Great  Uncle  to  Mary  Camden  Ware   and   prominent   among   the   Garland   family   of  Virginia  was
 David Shepherd Garland whose son WILLIAM H. GARLAND was the husband of Richard and Mary's daughter FRANCES MARIE ANN EUBANK.   David Garland's sister FRANCES MARIA ANNA GARLAND was Mary's grandmother through family lineage of REUBEN PENDLETON and JAMES WARE, and she was Frances's namesake.   William H. Garland and his wife Frances Ann were first cousins, twice removed.

After William and Frances Ann moved from Jackson to New Orleans in the early 1840's, Richard and Mary bought the 400-acre Mall Bank plantation.   They prospered there for forty years.   Richard Eubank's entry on the 1860 U. S. Census for Jackson, Mississippi, shows real and personal property as $59,000.   Richard Eubank, Jr. lived at an adjacent residence, and had a tax assessment of $25,000, with a family tax base of $84,000.

Agricultural Schedule for Hinds County in 1860
In 1860 Mississippi published an  Agricultural Schedule for that year listing cotton plantations in each county that produced at least a dozen bales.   MALL BANK  produced 150 bales ; BURR GARLAND on his large plantation   of   several   thousand   acres   produced  475  bales  ;  neighbor      Aerial photo Mall Bank area . . . . . google.com
GEORGE W. MIMS produced 70 bales ; the nearby FONDREN  Plantation  250 bales.

Mall Bank was taken over by the Federal Army for use as a hospital
In July, 1863, the Federal army returned from victory at Vicksburg to finish the destruction begun in central Jackson two months earlier in May.   Mall Bank had escaped the May horror, but in July Gen. Grant's order was to destroy all within a 15-mile radius of Jackson.   Vastly outnumbered, Confederate General Johnston left Jackson and the area unprotected and marched his troops east across the Pearl River toward Meridian.  

Moving north from the center of the city, troops commanded by U.S. Brigadier General Welch and Col. Walcott, marched their troops up Old Canton Road, turning at the long drive to the house.   Horses pulled wagons filled with wounded soldiers into the surrounding yard.   Soldiers immediately began going brusquely through the house, going from room to room, dragging most of the furniture out into the yard clearing the rooms for their wounded men.

Eyewitness accounts from the family through the years tell how "soldiers took over the plantation and the house . . . . they carried the baby-grand piano out into the yard, then threw hay into it for their horses to eat."

The Federals further ransacked the house and outbuildings, confiscating plantation products of all kind, everything that could be used by the Army that the Eubank family had left behind when making their escape with a number of servants east across the Pearl    Rand-McNally maps
 River to the family hunting lodge Moss Side at Fannin in Rankin County.
                                                                                                                                     
Days later the Federal regiment  had begun moving out of their temporary hospital quarters when the family returned to Mall Bank from the lodge in Fannin to further gleen any useful item from the place, and to ask that their house be saved.   The last company had now moved out, and the commander ordered the house burned.  And so it was.     An eyewitness account through very young eyes, was that of RICHARD FONDREN RIVINAC, age three.  He watched as flames began to rise from Mall Bank. Richard, his older sister and mother SELINA EUBANK RIVINAC had lived with the Eubank family since Richard's father PETER RIVINAC had left to serve in a Confederate regiment.    The family watched for some time the flames consume their home, and the several outbuildings.  At length, they climbed into the carriage, and for the last time rode down the long drive, leaving Mall Bank to the winds of Reconstruction.

Southern Claims Commission
In March 1871 Congress created the Southern Claims Commission which allowed residents of the southern states to apply for compensation for supplies taken from their farms during the War for the use of the Army  of the United States.  

Richard Eubank died in April, 1871, and Mary in his stead filed a claim to recover what was taken from "Mall Bank."

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Mary C. Eubank's Petition to the Southern Claims Commission, June 13, 1872
Below are the persons named in the Petition who were witness to the taking of the property.

Name ...............................................................          Post Office ..............................................................   
Mrs. Selina Rivinac  [Richard and Mary's daughter, wife of PETER RIVINAC, composer of dances and marches during the Civil War.]
Dr. W. P. [William Preston) Garland and his family lived at the adjacent residence to Mall Bank and was Mary's cousin.
Richard N. Eubank was Richard and Mary's son who served with the CSA Quarter Master Dept. in Jackson.
Jordan Eubank was a freedman now.  He had come with the Eubank family from Virginia.
Dennis Lancaster - nearby resident of Mall Bank.
Jefferson Dortch was a neighbor of Dr. Garland.
John Rutherford - nearby resident of Mall Bank.
Sophia Graves - a freedwoman now, whose family had come to Mississippi from Virginia with the Eubank family, and she had been Mary's personal servant for many years.  Mary sold fifty acres of land in Rankin to Sophia.  At the time Sophia had signed this petition she was married to a Mr. Graves.  On the 1880 census her entry was as Sophia Eubanks.

Mary's petition claimed that she was deserving of compensation for livestock and products of the farm that the U.S. Army had taken for their use, as the Petition states verbatim: (below)

"taken and used by the Division of the Army commanded by General Grant about the 10th or 15th day of July, 1863, while besieging Jackson, State of Mississippi.  General Sherman was in command of this section of the Army, while Brigadier General Welch and Col. Walcott were in immediate command of that portion of the Army occupying the Premises from which the said property was taken.  The Residence, and yard adjacent, for near a month was the Hospital for the Army, the Surgeons of the Army taking full possession of the Property named and using same for the sick and wounded and for the general Service of the army.
                
(See list of confiscated goods  above amounting to $33,310.)

Mary was represented in Washington by the law firm of Carlisle and McPherson.  Her attorney in Mississippi was HARVEY R. WARE of Jackson, and husband of granddaughter Mollie Stewart.  Harvey was a brother to THOMPSON PARRISH WARE, a lawyer, too, and husband of SALLIE BULLIS SMITH, sister to JANE CATHERINE HUNTER, son Richard's wife.  Harvey and Thompson were from the lineage of Dr. James Ware of Caroline County, who moved after the Revolutionary War to Kentucky.

There have been no documents found to prove this claim was settled before Mary's death in 1879.  On March 10, 1876, Carlisle and McPherson retired from the case.  The Petition was sent to attorney A. J. Falls.  Harvey Ware continued to represent Mary's case in Mississippi.

Episcopal Vestry of Jackson   Richard Newman Eubank, Sr. was a founding member and vestryman of St. Andrew's Episcopal Church in Jackson.  He was among eleven vestrymen and two wardens of St. Andrew's Church who were granted a land patent from the State of Mississippi on December 30, 1842, on which to build a church in the City of Jackson.  The patent was signed by the Secretary of State, Lewis G. Holloway. The wardens were Joseph F. Montgomery and Benjamin Albertson.  Vestrymen were Robert Hughes, William Yerger, Burr Garland, Charles Scott, William S. Langley, William H. Young, Lemuel C. Moore, Jones B. Hoffman, Richard N. Eubank, Richard L. Dixon, and Thomas Graves.