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It was good. We had popcorn and chinqyiapina in the fall of the year. I used to pick up chips to use at the pot. I had a little basket, I picked up corn cobs. They burnt them end made corn. cob soda to use in the bread and cakes, We parched peeled sweet potatoes slice thin and. made coffee,

	“The Civil War was terrible. One morning before we was all out of bed the Yankees czae0 It was about daylight. He and the three boys were there. They didn‘ t btu‘n any houses and they didn‘ t hesitate but they took everything. They took all Miss Betty‘s nice silverware, They took fine quilts and feather beds. That was in the fall of the year. They drove off a line of our slaves (a block long) fer as frœi.me to that railroad, Made them go. They walked fast in front of the cavalrymen. They took mama and my sisters. She got away froan them with her girls and found her way back to papa at Lynohburg.

	“Colonel Radford went and took acme of the slave men and his boys. They brought hoene plenty beds and a barrel of salt • He brought back ;lent3r. He sent his slave xr~n to town any time. They had no notion leaving,

“One t line s~ae Yankee s cori~ . I run hid around M188 Betty‘ s long dre sa.

She was crying. They was pulling her rings off her fingers. I told them to

quit that. One of the mean things said, ‘Little nigger, I shoot your head f‘ They took all her nice clothes. They said they took all niggera. I sassed them, They went tU another t~OŒfl~ I Shot under Mies Betty‘s big skirt, They looked about for me but they thought I run oft to my mama. She ~1ias gone but they didu‘ t know it. I seen my best times then. We had a good time there, Miss Betty was good and kind to me. Good as I wanted, I wiah I had that good now,