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~ -	Interviewer	SamuelS.Tayior
	Person interviewed	Charle8 Graham
616 W. 27th Street, North Little Rock, Arkansa$
	Age~ ~-.29-~-~




	WI was born September 2?, 1859, Clarksville, Tennessee. I don‘t remember the county. There are several Clarksvillea throughOi~t the south. But Clarksville, Tennessee is the first and the oldest.

	“I ~ot a chance to see troops after the Civil War was over. The soldiers were p1ayin~, boxing, and the like. Then I remember hearing the cannons roar~.-1ong toms they used to call ‘em My uncle said, ‘That is General Grant opening fire on the Rebels.‘

	“The first clear thing I remeraber was when everybody v~as rejoicing because they were free. The soldiers were playing and boxing and chucking watermelons at one another. They had great lone ~ns called muskets. I

heard ‘em say that Abraham Lincoln had. turned ‚~ loose. Where I was at, they turned ‘em loose in ‘63. Lincoln was assassinated in ‘65. 1 heard that the morning after it was done. We was turned loose lone before then.

	“I was too young to pay much attent ion, but they were cutting up and clappin~ their hands ~id carrying on something terrible, and shouting, ‘free, free ‚ old Abraham done turned u s loose.‘

	“I was here in them days~ Heard those long toms roar! General Grant shellin€ the aebels!


Patrollers

	“I don‘t remerriber much about the patrollers except that when they been having dances, and some of them didn‘t have passes, they‘d get chased and run.