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 ~\	Interviewer	~~Çi~ea Zrefls Rob.ri3c~  ~	      --u
ç~‘1	Person interviewed	ris~&v~itq~ Cl~e~e	~
	        .	De Veils Bluff, Arkansas
	Age   _ •


~	~ — ~ — — — — ~ ~ — — — — ~ ~ ~ — — — — — — — — — — — — “Mismis, I thought it I‘d ses you agin I‘d t.ll you this song:

‘J•.ff Davis is President
	‚	Abe Lincoln is a fool
		Come hers, see Y.ff. rid. the gray horse
		And Abe Lincoln the aile.‘

	“They sung all sich songs dunn‘ of thi war.

	‘Fil. wagons cc~ by. They said it was Jeff 1~vise‘a wagons. They was loaded wid silver aony -~ all flYs -~ in Lincoln County, Georgia. 8on~how the tolka got a ihiz of it and got the ~onsy outen ons the wagons.

Abrahu~ ‚~~ old aistress‘ son had old-~faahion saddle bag full. $ho it was ihite folks all but two or three slaves. Hogs tors up sacks money, find em hid in the woods. They thought it was corn. They found a leather trunk full er money ~ silver money ~ down in the creak. Money ~iried all round. The wa~ it ai]. started one colored men throw.d down a bright dii~ to a Yankee to scmpin he wanter ~iy. That started it all. They tied their thumbs this way (thumbs crossed) behind em, then strung em up in tress by their irists behind em. It put heep ot em in bed an‘

ao~ most died never did get over it. The Yankee soldisrs co~ do~
-thci~?
that and got all the money nearly. They say the war last tour years,

fi?. months. Seemed like twenty yŕsrs.~