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	Several months a go, I called at 1217 Ash Street, Texarkaxia, Arkansas where I had been informed a voluble old negro lived. An aged, gray-haired, negro woman came to the door and informed nie her father was in the wood shed at the back of the house. Going around to the wood shed I found hin busily engaged in storing his i~rinter supply of wood. V~hen I made known my missioi~ he readily agreed to answer all niy questions as best he could. Seating himself on a block of wood, he told this almost incredible story, along with lengthy discourses on politics, religion andother current events:

	nI wuz born Mardi 15, 1843, in Monroe County, Mississippi, near Aberdeen, Mah Mahster wuz Colonel Oghurn, one ob de biggea‘ planters in de state of Miss— issippi. Manys de time he raised so much cotton dat dorn big steamers just couldnt carry it all down to N‘Awlins in one year. But den along came de Civil War • an‘ we didn‘t raise nothin‘ fo‘ several years. ~ T~hy? Beoase most uf us jined t FB Confederate Arny in C o].onel Ogburn‘ s regiment a s servant s and bodyguards. An‘ let me tell ye‘ somethin‘, whitefolks. Dore never v~uz a war like dis war. ~‘Vhy I ‘mémbor dat after de battle of Corinth, Miss., a five acre field was so thickly covered wid de dead and wounded dat yot couldn‘t touch de ground in walkin‘ across it. And de oiiliest way to bury dem wuz to out a deep furrow wid a plow, lay de soldiers head to head, an‘ plow de dirt back on dem.“

	“About a year after de war started de Mahster got one ob dose ~

frum de Army so wecould come toUiller County, where he boùght de place on Red

River now kno~wn as de Adams Farm.,
This Information given by	~	P~OQ113~  ~	~	_
Place of Residence	~ ~?~8treet,~ Texarka~, Ax~caflsas  ~

Occupation	None ~ AGE93