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	RI recollect a right smart of the Civil War. We was close nou~ to hear the roar ax~d rumble and the ~ big cannons slialce the things In the houes.,

I dom‘t know where they was righting~—a long ways ott. I

	~i: saw the soldiere acoutlng. They come ~iost any time. They go iù and take every drop of milk out or the clrnxn. They took anything they could find and went away with it. I seen the cavalry come through. I thought they looked so pretty. • Their~cauteens was shining in the eun~ Miss Cornelia told me to hide, the soldiers might take~ on with them. I didx~ t want to go • I was very ~el1 pleased there at Misa mi‘ a.

	“I seen the cavalry coene ~ throu~1i that raised the ‚ white shee‘ I know now it must have been a white flag but they called it a white sheet to quit righting. It was raised a short time after they passed and thiy said they was the ones raised it • I don‘ t know where it was• ~ I recken it was a big white flag they rared up. It was so they would stop fighting.
	“Mars Sam 8han didn‘ t go to no war ; he hid out.
~e said it waa a
useless war, he wasu‘ t going to get shot up for no use a tail ‚ and he . never went a step. He hid out. I don‘t know where. I know charles wuld take the baskets off. Charles tended to the stock and the carriage. He drove the wagon and carriage. He fetched water and wood. lie was a black boy.

Mars Sein Shan said he wasn‘ t golner loose his 1i~e for nothing.

“Misa Cornelia would cook corn light bread and muffins and anything they had to cook. Rations got down mi~ity scarce before it was done They ptit the big round basket nearly big as a split cotton basket

out on the back portico. ~ Charles come and disappear with it. “Chess and Charles was colored overseers. He didn‘t have white

Overseers. Miss Cornelia and Miss Cloe would walk the floor and cry