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~nd another time I wuz wid a bunch of niggers when dey wuz plannin‘ ~n kilhin a white r~an who wuz a friend ob mine. As soon as I could I ~1i~ away and tips him off. When I got back one ob dem niggers looks at me suspicious like and asks, “where yo been, nigger?“ “I wuz shakin‘ like a leaf in a storm, but I says : I ain‘t been nowhere just went home to get some cartridges to help kill dis

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	“Not long after I jined Oolonel Baker‘s Gang, we wuz ooinin‘ frum F~lt~~ to C li~per throu gh de Red River bottoms • De r iver wtiz overfiowin‘ ~ t as we wuz orcssin‘ a deep, swift slough, Colonel Baker and his horse got tangled up in soinS grape V1fl65s Colonel Baker yelled, and I turned my mule around and cut all de grape vine loose wid my Bowie knife. Dere ain‘t nothin‘ like a mule for swiimnin‘~ Dey can swim circles aroun‘ ~y horse. Aslongas he lived, Colonel Baker was always grateful to me ~ savin‘ his life . „

	“De Colonel hated de sight ob mean niggers. Wewould ride up to a ~gro settlement, and tell de niggers we wuz organizing a coicred militia to catch Cullen Baker snd his gang. Most ob de negroes would join, but some ob dem had to be en— couraged by Colonel Bakerts big gun. De recruits would be lined up in an open field fo‘ drilling. And dey sho wuz drilled. Colonel Baker and his men would shoot t1~m by the score. Dey killed 53 at Ho~an,Arkansas, 86 at Rocky Coxnfort,( Foreman~ Arkansas, 6 near Ogden, Arkansas, G on de Temple place, 62 at Jefferson, Texas, 100 in Ncrth Louisiana, 73 at Marshall, Texas, and several others.“
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	“All of de big planters wuz friendly to Cullen Baker. I have carried supplies rr~any times trum de big plantations — Hervey, Glass, and others — to Cullen Baker. Dc Colonel always carried a big double—barrel shotgun. It must have been de biggest shotgun in de world, not less den a number eight size. He whipped 16 soldiers at Old Bø~t~~ wid dis gun one ti~.“

	nI saw Colonel Baker killed. We had just arrived at his father—in—law‘s house and I wuz in the horse lot, about 50 yards from de house, when Joe Davis, Thomas Orr and some more men rode up.