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	*ft•y would shoot a cannon, had a sponge on a long rod. They wipe it out and put in a~th.n big ball, get way back and pill a rope.

The cannon fire agin. Course I was scared. ___________________

~1?1Q~~5 that ‘bout how long I was in ths war. I was twelve or fourteen years old. I recollect it as well as if lt was yesterday. They never had a battle at St. Charles while I was there. They loaded up the boat end took us to Little Rook. They ~istered out thins. The ~Ysnke. soldiers give ~it news of freedom. They was shouting ‘round. I je.‘ stood around to ~ee whut they goiner do next. Didn‘t nobody

give me nuthin‘. I didn‘t know what to do. Everything going. Tents
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all gone, no place to go stay end n~thln‘ to sat. That was the big

freedom to us colored folks. That the way white folks fightin‘ do thi colored folks. I got hungry and naked end cold niany a time. I had a good aesten end I thought h. always treated i~ h.ap better than that. I wanted to go back but I had no way. I made it dom to 8t. Charles in ‘bout a year after the surrender. I started farmin‘ • I been farain‘ even since. In Little Rook I found a job in a tin pin alley, pickin‘ up balls. Thi.aan paid ~ $12 a ~nth, next to starvation. I think his

name was Warren Rogers.

	RI went to Thdisn Bey ‘bout 1868 and farn~d for Mr. Hathisy, thin

Mr. Dineen. Then I cc~ up to Clez‘endon end been here ever since.

	ROne tii~ I owned 40 acres at Holly Qt~‘ove, sold it, spent th. money.

	NI too old~,I don‘t fool aid no votin‘. I never did take a big stock in sich foolishness.

	~I live wid wy daughter and white folks. The Welfare glss mo $8 a month. We got a ~rden. No cow. No hog. No chickens.