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	“My daddy bad a hose named Salem and had a cart and he would take It~ and my man~ny and my sister Liza and go to Amenious and 1*iy rat ions for the next week.

	“I member when the war started in 1861 my mammy hired me out to Mrs.

Brewer and she used to git after me and say, ‘You btter do that good or I‘ 11 whip you, My hua~nd gone to war now on ac count of you nig~ra and it‘ 2 a pity you niggera ever been cause he may get killed and I‘ 11 never see him again.‘

	I, ~ member see in ‚ General Bragg ‚ s men and Genera). Steele and General Marinaduke. Had a fig~it down at Mark‘s Mill. W~ just lived six miles from there. Seen the Yankees commt by along the big public road. The Yankee s whipped and fought em so strong they didn ‚ t have t 1mo to bury the dead. We oould see the buzzards and carrion crows. I used to hear old mistress say, ‘There goes the buzzards, done et ai]. the meat off. ‚ I used to go to mill and we could see the bones. Used to g~ out and look at their teeth. No ma‘m, I wasn‘t scared, the white boys was with n~.

	“Dr. Pope was good to ~‚ better to me than he was to Master Walter and Master Billy and my young Misa, Aurelia, cause me and Laura was $cared of em and we tried to do everything they wanted~

	“Then the war ended in 1865 we was out in the field gettin‘ pumpklns. Old master come out and said, ‘Hardy, you and Laura is free now.

You can stay or you can go and live with so~nebody else.‘ We stayed till

1868 and then our inan~nies come after us, I was seventeen.

	‘~After freedom my men~ny sent me to school. Teacher‘s neue was W. H. Young. Name was William Young b~t he went under the head of W. H.

Young.