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	~‘8oma of‘ deae men I ~member good ‘oause dey waa us oloasat neighbors and some ‘of dem libed on tJtj~~~g places. ]~rs was Mr. Iaua Shell, Mr. Tom Stoneham, Mr. Bob Yabee ‚ Mr. Henry Rabb and Mr. Tom Casteel • t~m I ‘member well ‘cause dey come to us cabin right oVen and mar~ny, she ud cook for ‘em and den atter de niggers git dey freedom dey could 1e~ve de place any tine dey choose and every so ot‘en znani~y ud go to Helena and gin‘rally she took me wid her to help tote de things she get dere. 01e Mr. Cooledg~, he had de bigge et and ‚ bout de oui ie at store dat der. was in Helena at dat t line • Mr. Cooledge ‚ he was a oie like gentleman and had everything most in he store.-~ bOOt8, shoes, tobacco, medicine en so on. Cose couldn‘t no ~U88Ofl go in an‘ outen Helena at dat time—dat is dunn‘ war daya.~outen dey had a pass and de Yankee sojer dat writ de passes was naiad &tford en he is de one what us ailus git our passes from for to git in en out and ‘twasn‘t so long ‘fore Mr. ~ford, he git to know my maimny right weil and call her by her name. He~ just like all de white mena, knowed her as ‘Aunt Mary‘, ~t him nor none of de Yankees knowed dat manvny was a Confedrit and data somepin I will tell you, boss,

	‘Dese sojers dat I la just named and dat was us neighbors, dey ud come to our cabin son~times en say, ‘Aunt Mary~ we want you to go to Helena tor us and git some tobacco ‚ and mebbe some medicine ‚ and so on, and we gwine write oie man Cooledge er note ror you to take wid you; and man~ny, she ud git off for town walking and ud git de note to oie man Cooledge ~ 01e man Cooledge, you see, bosse he sided wid de Contedrites too but he didn‘ let on dat he did but all de Confedrit sojers ‘round dar in de county, dey knowed dey could ‘pend on him and when my mammy ud take de note in oie man Cooledge, he ud fix ma~ny up in some o~ dem big, wide hoop skirts and hide de things ‘neath de skirts dat de men sont for. Den she and sometimes me